Magento Overiding XML Case Inconsistency Continues

Jun 23, 2009 · 1 minute read
Category: magento

Had another tearing hair out moment when trying to figure out why my helper override was working fine, but my block override wasn’t working. Here is the result:

helper working, block not working:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<config>
    <modules>
        <EC_CatalogSearch>
            <version>0.1.0</version>
        </EC_CatalogSearch>
    </modules>
    <global>
        <helpers>
            <catalogSearch>
                <rewrite>
                    <data>EC_CatalogSearch_Helper_Data</data>
                </rewrite>
            </catalogSearch>
        </helpers>
        <blocks>
            <catalogSearch>
                <rewrite>
                    <result>EC_CatalogSearch_Block_Result</result>
                </rewrite>
            </catalogSearch>
        </blocks>
    </global>
</config>

then after a load of messing about, this one does work:

helper and block both working

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<config>
    <modules>
        <EC_CatalogSearch>
            <version>0.1.0</version>
        </EC_CatalogSearch>
    </modules>
    <global>
        <helpers>
            <catalogSearch>
                <rewrite>
                    <data>EC_CatalogSearch_Helper_Data</data>
                </rewrite>
            </catalogSearch>
        </helpers>
        <blocks>
            <catalogsearch>
                <rewrite>
                    <result>EC_CatalogSearch_Block_Result</result>
                </rewrite>
            </catalogsearch>
        </blocks>
    </global>
</config>

yeah exactly :S