Hey all, since I didn't receive a reply on the users list, I decided to forward this here. While I addressed Fabien personally, I'd be about all insights anybody can offer. I'm really just looking to find out whether this is a problem Symfony should take care of for an application, or whether it is a problem an application has to solve itself. I am of course aware that this essentially the diamond problem, and that PHP does not have multiple inheritance. So I was hoping you might have some ideas on how to go about implementing such plugins? What design would you personally go for? Use the event handler for it all? Something else entirely?
Cheers Nils ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Nils Adermann <[email protected]> Date: 2010/2/22 Subject: [symfony-users] Re: Symfony 2 and changing a Bundle in the Application To: symfony users <[email protected]> On Feb 22, 1:50 pm, Fabien Potencier <fabien.potenc...@symfony- project.com> wrote: > On 2/20/10 5:42 PM, Matthias N. wrote: > > So.. my question is how do I overwrite / change code from a bundle in > > src/Bundle ? > > Just create a bundle with the same name but in the Application/ > directory. And everything is just easier as you can "just" override the > controllers (same class name but from different namespaces). And for > templates, we have the exact same inheritance mechanism (just a bit more > powerful ;)). > > By the way, you can create as many namespaces as you need to host your > bundles. And you can store them wherever you want. You have much more > flexibility than what you have in symfony 1. > > Fabien Hey Fabien, what are your thoughts on building an application that allows the user to install multiple bundles that extend an existing one? How would you go about having two bundles that each add something to the controller of an existing bundle? Of course you could add a Bundles1 and a Bundles2 directory and load them after one another, but having to hardcode the maximum number of chained bundles in there seems unclean. Of course you preferably do not want to chain many anyway to keep things simple, but allowing a few seems acceptable to me. This was really what I was getting at with my question about Bundles inside of Bundles question at Symfony Live. I agree that actual nesting of Bundles inside other Bundles would overcomplicate things and is not a good idea. Since I haven't tried that yet, does a Bundle have to explicitly reference the Bundle it extends, meaning are chains even possible without the extending bundles knowing about each other? Let me give you an example: I have my Forum bundle that has a controller for a topic (view posts, reply, etc). Now if I want to build a bundle that adds polls to topics I could create a Forum bundle extending the existing bundle, adding the voting actions etc. to the controller. I can place this Bundle in Application/. Next I want to add a print view to topics, so I create another Forum Bundle that adds the relevant bits. Where do I put this bundle? Can the Poll and Print view bundles even be used at the same time? Am I thinking about Bundles all in the wrong way? I'm really not sure my ideas even make sense. On the other hand you say it is much more flexible so I hope this is doable somehow? Cheers Nils -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "symfony users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/symfony-users?hl=en. -- If you want to report a vulnerability issue on symfony, please send it to security at symfony-project.com You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "symfony developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/symfony-devs?hl=en
