#2742 How to make update-safe changes (Area.php Room.php)?

[Thomas S.]

Hi

MRBS version: 1.10.0

I have made some changes to Area.php an Room.php (to be able to implement a per-ldap group role-based access to rooms in a specific area).

Is there a way to make this update-safe, because very time i update to the latest version, i have to merge my changes on the bottom of the files again?

Best,
Thomas

[Campbell Morrison]

Not very easily. The things you could do are

1. Isolate your changes as much as possible by putting them in an include file.
2. Take a fork of MRBS on GitHub and use the automatic merge tools. However you may still have to do a manual merge from time to time.

[Thomas S.]

Hi

Thanks. Is there any include file that is automatically included so i.e. "Room-local.php" or similar? Then i could have my changes in there and it is update-safe.

[Campbell Morrison]

Ah, I've just realised, given the file names, that you must be using the roles branch. In which case you could just extend those classes. For example

<?php
namespace MRBS;

class MyRoom extends Room
{
}

But then you'd have to change Room to MyRoom throughout the rest of MRBS.

[Thomas S.]

Ok this won't help either, but thanks a lot anyway :)