I am trying to overwrite the controller located at: app/core/code/Mage/Adminhtml/controllers/Catalog/ProductController.php
First of all I tried just making a copy in my local code directory app/local/code/Mage/Adminhtml/controllers/Catalog/ProductController.php keeping the file exactly the same and just making it die() so I knew if it was getting executed. But this didn't work and I read somewhere that you can't simply just drop an admin controller into the local directory.
Considering this, my next option is to write a module and use the config.xml to "rewrite" the controller. Thankfully I am able to add the functionality I require to a module that I have already been working on so I don't need to create a module simply for this task. So in my config.xml I added:
<config>
....
<admin>
<routers>
<adminhtml>
<args>
<modules>
<Mycompany_Prime before="Mage_Adminhtml">Mycompany_Prime_Adminhtml</Mycompany_Prime>
</modules>
</args>
</adminhtml>
</routers>
</admin>
.....
<admin/> is a direct child of <config/>.
Then I created my new controller under app/code/local/Mycompany/Prime/controllers/Adminhtml/ProductController.php with:
require_once "Mage/Adminhtml/controllers/Catalog/ProductController.php";
class Mycompany_Prime_Adminhtml_ProductController extends Mage_Adminhtml_Catalog_ProductController {
....
However the class never gets executed. For that matter, neither does the script:
die('Here');
require_once "Mage/Adminhtml/controllers/Catalog/ProductController.php";
class Mycompany_Prime_Adminhtml_ProductController extends Mage_Adminhtml_Catalog_ProductController {
Any help on overwriting this admin controller would be appreciated. I am using Magento version 1.6
