Three ways to use extension data in C/Side

So, I get it now. We need to develop in extensions. Nothing but extensions. We need to tell our employers to forget about new requirements for half a year and ignore bugs while we developers lock ourselves in the basement and rework our existing code to an extension. Right?

Well, locking developers in a basement will probably appeal to a fair number of managers. Not developing new requirements or fixing bugs for said amount of time will definitely not. Like it or not, many of us face working with hybrid systems.

Where I work we now have extensions in a heavily modified C/Side code base. So when my Colleague phoned me a while back to ask me how in hell he could get a field from our extension onto a C/Side report I had to put my thinking cap on.

So far I came up with three workable methods of…