Which method to use to replace a stock ControllerPublic?

[LennardF1989]

Which method do I use to complete replace a stock ControllerPublic. As in, not extend upon it, but completely rewrite it?

I figure there are two methods to this:
1. Replace the stock route (eg. login) in an add-on to point to your custom ControllerPublic, is that even possible?
2. Extend and override all the methods using a Listener

Option 1 obviously seems the best, but is it really? Did I miss another potential trick to achieve the same result?

I want to replace XenForo_ControllerPublic_Login with the following logic (for testing purposes, I should add):

class MyAddon_ControllerPublic_Login extends XenForo_ControllerPublic_Abstract
{
    public function actionIndex()
    {
        die("Hello!");
    }
}

 

[tyteen4a03]

Why would you want to do so?

 

[Jeremy]

If I remember correctly, he is attempting to authenticate completely outside of XenForo. You may want to look into my posting history and the discussions on XenForo_Authentication, it may be what you actually want.

 

[tyteen4a03]

If I remember correctly, he is attempting to authenticate completely outside of XenForo. You may want to look into my posting history and the discussions on XenForo_Authentication, it may be what you actually want.

Wouldn't using a custom RoutePrefix, then redirecting original route to custom route via the router be a better idea?

 

[Jeremy]

Well, yes, and that would be my next suggestion, but XenForo depends on quite a bit of account information, so disabling the modification of passwords (or overwriting it) and changing the authentication method is my prime suggestion, and may be the easiest to properly code.

 

[LennardF1989]

I ended up using method one and it works just fine.