By aburrows on

From what I understand drupal community does not recommend you edit the actual source files, but create another file that takes presidence over the other.

I know if i edit the original module file it works, but I want to do it the correct way and not get into bad development habits.

For instance, as you can see here http://development-test.co.uk/heatallstars/

I have changed the text to Latest News, instead of Latest Blog Entry. Now I want to be able to do it the correct way, but can't seem to find anything that helps me.

I also want to be able to change how it displays the news, so with the news title and then some blurb, then using some jQuery make the li clickable and using a hover fx.

Once I get my head around this from you guys helping me and get underway with drupal I will submit any bespoke modules, themes etc to the drupal community.

I have been using Drupal for a couple of days now, and absolutely love it.

Thanks in advance.

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macattack2k commented

I would love a clear cut response to this entry (maybe you've figured out the method by now abdesignuk?). I've started wading through the module development documentation several times now but got sidetracked and bored.

For instance, I have no trouble going into the comment.module file and adjusting the subject field to automatically display 'Re: '. $node->title but I would desperately like to know how to do this the "correct" way. So that when I download the latest update to comment module I don't wipe out my customization.

I believe the author of the following post was looking for a similar response on this thread.
http://drupal.org/node/336485 (just got referenced to a stringoverride module)