Comments on: How to override Magento model classes?

By: Janimatti Ellonen

Janimatti Ellonen — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 08:05:21 +0000

Worth to mention is that if the class you want to override has a deeper catalog structure then you need to provide the whole path to the element in the config.xml file.

For example, I had to override the password length check in

class

Mage_Customer_Model_Customer_Attribute_Backend_Password

My config file:

*snip*

MyCompany_Customer_Model_Customer_Attribute_Backend_Password

*snip*

By: Jamal

Jamal — Thu, 13 May 2010 16:48:40 +0000

Does anybody know how to override this magento class

class Mage_Directory_Model_Currency extends Mage_Core_Model_Abstract
{ }

In my config.xml file, I have made the following change:

…..

MyCompany_MyModule_Model_Currency

……

But it is not working! I’m missing something?

Regards,

By: Vahagn

Vahagn — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:15:20 +0000

Please correct xml tags there is a space between opening tag and exclamation sign: “< ?xml"

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:32:13 +0000

Thanks for the effort.

Seems like Branko got it covered already at ActiveCodeline, Overrider module, which shows it nicely how to do it ( http://activecodeline.com/modules/ ).

By: Tomas Novoselic

Tomas Novoselic — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 10:15:44 +0000

Hm… it seems that I was right, wordpress plugin turns all tags to small case

By: Tomas Novoselic

Tomas Novoselic — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 10:12:20 +0000

@ m4e Tnx for mentioning that! I’m not sure what happened, maybe this code display plugin for wordpress. I’ll check that asap

By: m4e

m4e — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:15:00 +0000

// lost tags, sorry
You should use “codePool” instead of “codepool”
Magento is case sencitive, you know

By: m4e

m4e — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:14:05 +0000

You should use instead of