vQMod - what do you think - good ?

[pwired]

I'm playing around in OpenCart v1.5.6.4 lately and really feel at home.

Came across vQMod and boy does it give flexibility.

Have you guys been using this and what do you think ?

https://code.google.com/p/vqmod/

http://code.google.com/p/vqmod/wiki/Examples

[Craig]

In the past I've worked on an OpenCart site and used vQMod to add new functionality. I don't think it's particularly great
 

Instead of making changes to the core files directly, the changes are created as xml search/replace script files.

Personally, I think that is a very fragile method of working around the problem of not having a system that is open and easy enough to enhance with the standard language tools and functionality available to us as developers. I don't see it is a long-term solution to poorly-designed application architecture, but as a "best effort" fix for working that way when you absolutely have to.

[Ivan Gretsky]

Not quite sure if I am getting it right, but hooks seem to cover most of the use cases for that in PW.

While working with Joomla though this vQMod seemed a way to go as there was no easy way to override models and controllers.

But maybe I am just not there with PW yet as I have not needed to override core files.

[pwired]

Would it be usable for version control ?

[pwired]

In the past I've worked on an OpenCart site and used vQMod to add new functionality. I don't think it's particularly great

And here we have it:

http://www.opencart.com/index.php?route=extension/extension/info&extension_id=8588

<= available for 1.5.6.4 =>