By gunmajet on

Is there any way to override regular functions that don't start with 'theme_' ? I'm trying to get rid of all my hacks in the core modules to clean up my site. There are a couple functions where I just want to change an sql query. I suppose I could pretty easily make a module to replace some functionality, but for a couple lines of code, I'd rather not go through the hassle. Any ideas?

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dman commented

Short answer: no.

PHP doesn't play to happy with that idea. If you've gotta hack the core, the core will remain hacked.
I've done magical conditional includes before now, but I would be interested if anyone has any other insight on this.

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dman commented

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.override-function.php

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See this issue for some of the previous discussion: http://drupal.org/node/29428.

The tools we have available for overriding and extending include:

1. Use hook_db_rewrite_sql(). Can this help modify the queries you have in mind? (Only available if those queries are run through db_rewrite_sql().)

2. Override a menu item. Available if the function you're trying to override is called by a menu item. In a module with a higher weight than the module whose function you're overiding, redefine the menu item in a _menu hook, putting a new function (likely, a modified version of the original one) as the callback.

3. hook_form_alter.