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OK, I'm about to start my first real hack of the PHP code.

I'm not clear on how the lib-custom stuff works. I'm clear WHY to do that! Not how.

If I'm changing a procedure that's in lib-common, do I just copy the proc I want, paste it into lib-custom & make my changes? And if so, then when Apache's executing my pages, does it work because PHP has been told to look in php-custom first, then search in php-common, to resolve proc calls?

Sorry to be such a newbie at so much of GL, love the product & I'm learning one h*lluvalot as I'm working my site.

Thanks for any help!

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Tom
www.southparkcity.com

Correct me if I am wrong, but I guess it will be some kind of cosmetic "hack" and not really a full blown change to the core.

Ifso I suggest you just modify directly lib-common.php in order to not get any coding conflicts later on when you upgrade.

If you want to strip it out of lib-common.php and move it altogether to lib-custom.php

Lib-custom.php is there to add additional features so you won´t have to change lib-common when you upgrade.
If you hack the core you could comment out the core and refer to a seperate include or make it directly in the code.

PHP will not resolve any conflicts for you, unfortunatly it needs to be correct.

Greetz,
Boris

PS Don´t forget the backup of your files

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Thank you, Boris, this tells me what I wanted to know!

You're right, the changes are small, so I may as well keep it in lib-common. If I'm meticulous enough with my ongoing document of my changes, I might even remember to re-apply them on upgrade!

And thanks for the reminder to backup...yep, that's critical!

Tom

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Tom
www.southparkcity.com