How to change core functionality of dev portal's custom module - devconnect_developer_apps.module

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I want to change the Analytics tabs on user/me/apps page.

In order to show/hide additional tabs under Analytics, I went in to ../profiles\apigee\modules\custom\devconnect\devconnect_developer_apps path and modified devconnect_developer_apps.module file.

The exact function that I modified is _devconnect_developer_apps_detail.

Everything works as expected, for instance in order to hide keys tab, I commented out the following:

// $tabs = array( // array(‘text’ => t(‘Keys’), ‘path’ => ‘#keys’), // );

Now, my question is how can I copy this change to ../sites/all/themes/mytheme? Because when Apigee rolls out any updated/changes, my changes in devconnect_developer_apps.module file will be lost.

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You should follow the instructions here, and create a sub-theme.

This allows you to override things from the theme, with no danger of those over-ridden things being over-WRITTEN when Apigee updates the original theme.

Good luck!

3

Hi Dino,

I got the code base from a third party, and hence everything was pre configured. I know how to override templates, for instance I have copied devconnect_developer_apps_list.tpl.php from profiles\apigee\modules\custom\devconnect\devconnect_developer_apps\templates to sites\all\themes\custom\templates\devconnect and it works.

in order to make the changes in custom modules work, Can i just copy \profiles\apigee\modules\custom\devconnect folder in to sites\all\modules, make changes and install it as a custom module on our portal?

http://docs.apigee.com/developer-services/content/customizing-theme#customizingtheapigeeresponsivetheme dosen’t gives me any indication as to how I can change the core module itself.

4

Would it be possible for me to change the function itself in all\themes\custom\template.php via some hook_…alter?

The exact function that I want to modify is _devconnect_developer_apps_detail under ../profiles\apigee\modules\custom\devconnect\devconnect_developer_apps\devconnect_developer_apps.module

5

yes, if you copy a module to sites/all/modules, and then modify it, it will take precedence over other modules. This is just standard Drupal stuff. You can read about that here.

But if you take the copy-and-modify approach, then you own the responsibility of updating the module if Apigee delivers updates.

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Yes, as you can see, that function calls drupal_alter with the name “devconnect_developer_app”.

To provide a hook for that alter, you need to provide a module. In that module, provide a function with a name that is the joining of 3 parts, separated by underscore:

  • short name of your module
  • “devconnect_developer_app”
  • “alter”

Suppose you want to write a module called ofs_dc_mod . In that case your module must provide a function called ofs_dc_mod_devconnect_developer_app_alter .

It should be something like this:

function ofs_dc_mod_devconnect_developer_app_alter(&$info){
  // change info here. add new properties, or modify existing ones.
  $info['dino_was_here'] = 'This can be anything';
}
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Thanks a lot Dino.

That helped me a lot.

A question though, I am getting all the app and developer attributes by using dpm($info);, however, I cannot see any UI tabs related info like $panes and $tabs.

If I want to hide Keys tab as defined in the code below:

$tabs = array( array(‘text’ => t(‘Keys’), ‘path’ => ‘#keys’), );

how would i be able to do that from the function and $info variable?