[wp-hackers] overriding pluggable.php functions

[Dougal Campbell]

Will Norris wrote:
> [...] So I've been thinking about how it would work if pluggable.php 
> were instead made up of functions like:
>
> if (!function_exists('wp_authenticate')) {
>     function wp_authenticate($username, $password) {
>         return _wp_authenticate($username, $password) {
>     }
> }
>
> function _wp_authenticate($username, $password) {
>     /* all the normal authentication logic */
> }
>
> So basically, the functions which can be replaced by plugins don't 
> actually include any logic whatsoever, they simply call "private" 
> counterparts.  This way, I can override wp_authenticate, but can still 
> fall back by calling _wp_authenticate myself. [...]

*headslap, because I didn't think of it myself*

+1 on this idea.

Sometime back, I had run into a a similar problem, wanting to override a 
pluggable function, but still be able to fall back to the original code. 
Of course, I went with the quick-and-dirty solution of just copying the 
original function. But I knew it was an ugly solution, because it wasn't 
future-proof.

This is the kind of elegant solution that's needed. It's basically the 
procedural programming equivalent of being able to call a super() method 
in OOP. :)

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