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Hello All,

This is my first post to this list.  I am the lead developer of the
March-Hare Communications Collective.  We are adding a number of
features to Ushahidi to make it a bit more suitable for real time report
aggregation and publishing at the street level for protesters.

Right now alot of the functionality we are working on is in the
OpenLayers code of Ushahidi.  While there are ways to hook into
different sections of functionality for the site there do not seem to be
many ways to hook into JS.  To make issues more difficult for developers
who want to customize the mapping features of Ushahidi it seems like
there is a fair amount of duplication of OpenLayers code in the
project.  I am wondering if anyone can speak if there are any plans to
address these issues and / or if there is a specific way it is intended
for developers to hook into the OpenLayers JS for mapping pages?

Currently the technique I am using is not to override the
/application/views/*_js.php files, but to use the
ushahidi_filter.header_js event to override javascript functions in the
end of the JS that is inserted in the html header with code like so:

preg_match(':^(.+)(//-->\s*</script>\s*)$:s', Event::$data, $matches);
$new_js = " ... ";
Event::$data = $matches[1] . $new_js . $matches[2];

Sincerely,
evoltech


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