Spoke too soon. Adding the require in CategoryPage.php prevents my test wiki from crashing always, but it still crashes when trying to view a category. :( ===================================== Jim Hu Associate Professor Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics 2128 TAMU Texas A&M Univ. College Station, TX 77843-2128 979-862-4054

On Feb 20, 2007, at 7:50 AM, Jim Hu wrote:

Hi,

I'm trying to write an extension that makes an alternative category page where the subcategories are split off from the articles. I'm hooking at CategoryPageView, and I thought that the simplest approach would be to extend the CategoryViewer class from CategoryPage.php. But when I try that, I get:

[Tue Feb 20 07:26:33 2007] [error] PHP Fatal error: Class 'Article' not found in /Library/WebServer/Documents/wiki/includes/ CategoryPage.php on line 15

This is after I require CategoryPage.php in the extension. Requiring Article.php in the extension doesn't seem to help, but it works if I hack in a

require_once("$IP/includes/Article.php");

in CategoryPage.php itself. Obviously, CategoryPage doesn't normally need this, and I'd prefer to not hack the base code. I know that I could get around this by just copying the CategoryViewer code into the extension, but if I can I'd like to do this by inheritance.

I don't understand why this happens. The hook is called from CategoryPage.php, so why does it have to be required again? Any explanations or suggestions? Thanks!!

Jim

Jim Hu Associate Professor Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics 2128 TAMU Texas A&M Univ. College Station, TX 77843-2128 979-862-4054

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