To hook or not to hook

[Paul M]

.. that is the question.

Re-doing one of my hacks tonight, I find I can do it the standard way - with file edits - or - if I start duplicating blocks of already run code, and a few other messy tricks (like duplicating an already run query, and altering GPC variables) I can actually make it work with just hooks.

Now the question is - which is better - nice simple code that requires the end user to edit vb files, or messy, fudged, repeating code that simply requires the end user to upload a set of plugins.

An interesting problem ........