A great place to start learning about piggybacking on other modules is the hook_nodeapi and hook_form_alter hooks. Those should allow you to do most of what you want. But if the functionality belongs in the module, submit a patch and help that module become better. Good luck, Rob Roy Barreca Electronic Insight Corporation 12526 High Bluff Drive, Suite 300 San Diego, CA 92130 http://www.electronicinsight.com rob@electronicinsight.com Benjamin Maurice wrote:
I very much expected to find "best practices" for extending modules, but I haven't.
Does anyone have any pointers to resources or advice?
It's great that Drupal itself is modular, but if I want to add a little something to a module that already does 90% of what I want, it seems there ought to be a standard way to do this without forking it.
Wrapping a module I can imagine how to do, and overriding or adding functions as needed, but it seems there could be a way to do this without having to define every function and pass it through. At least I hope to find recommendations on how to do this.
Thanks for any help,
Ben Melançon of Agaric Design http://agaricdesign.com/