How to override and extend widget

[pineoclean]

Hi i want to modify how the frontend Categories widget works

 

I thought id be able to extend the existing Categories widget class and override the pageName functions by creating a new file  (CategoriesNEW.php) containing :

 

namespace frontend\design\boxes;

use common\classes\design\boxes\categories

class CategoriesNEW extends Categories
{
    public static function pageName($categories_id, $countSubCategories)
    {
			//new code
    }
  
}

 

But it did not work... What is the best way to do this ? 

[osCommerce-Official]

@Ivan Holbi could you please respond with a wiki link? 

[pineoclean]

Sorry im new to this framework, I have looked at the wiki documentation but its not clear to me. 

 

Can you give me some step by step instructions on how to extend this class ?

 

[Ivan Holbi]

Hi,

We checked and your use is not correct (use common\classes\design\boxes\categories).

We would recommend to try at least as follows:

use frontend\design\boxes\Categories;

Best regards,

Ivan

[pineoclean]

Sorry i must have copied one of my earlier attempts. Lets try this again 

Im trying to override the run function in the frontend/design/boxes/Categories.php  

So i copy the the Categories.php to CategoriesNew.php and update the class to extend Categories 

namespace frontend\design\boxes;

use Yii;
use frontend\design\boxes\Categories;


class CategoriesNew extends Categories
{       
       
    public function run()
    {
        global $current_category_id, $breadcrumb;
		//Something New ......
    }
}

 

But it does not work,  

Should this work , or is this the wrong approach to modify existing widgets ?

 

 

 

[osCommerce-Official]

@Sergey Dunaevcould you please advise here?