Override Magento Contacts Controller

Question

I'm trying to override Mage/Contacts/IndexController.php

I created a folder in local and created Mynamespace/CustomContacts/controllers/IndexController.php

<?php

require_once 'Mage/Contacts/controllers/IndexController.php';

class Mynamespace_CustomContacts_IndexController extends Mage_Contacts_IndexController {

    protected function indexAction () {
        die;
    }
}

I also put this code in Mynamespace/CustomContacts/etc/config.xml

<config>
    <frontend>
        <routers>
            <contacts>
                <args>
                     <modules>
                        <Mynamespace_CustomContacts before="Mage_Contacts">Mynamespace_CustomContacts</Mynamespace_CustomContacts>
                    </modules>
                </args>
            </contacts>
        </routers>
    </frontend>
</config>

I cleaned the cache, but my die; does not work,

Thanks for any help

Answer 1

1. Best practices

Your config.xml file seems like this:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<config>
    <modules>
        <Mynamespace_CustomContacts>
            <version>0.1.0</version>
        </Mynamespace_CustomContacts>
    </modules>
    <frontend>
        <routers>
            <contacts>
                <args>
                    <modules>
                        <Mynamespace_CustomContacts before="Mage_Contacts">Mynamespace_CustomContacts</Mynamespace_CustomContacts>
                    </modules>
                </args>
            </contacts>
        </routers>
    </frontend>
</config>

2. Bad practices

You can move your controller in app/local/Mage/Contacts/controllers/IndexController.php for a hard override.

And don't forget to enable your module in xml file in app/etc/modules directory