[development] Extending Modules

[Gabor Hojtsy]

Several modules provide hooks as core does. These are easily extensible.

Gabor

On Fri, 7 Jul 2006, 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/
>
>