Joomla 1.0.12 - Modifying mod_mainmenu.php Topic is solved

[IsaacFreeman]

I have a site that's built around a set of educational activities - there's a central menu with a link and a story for each one.  I'm using a flat mainmenu list with the images stored in images/stories.  This looks fine, but users (including me) keep clicking on the images expecting them to link to the relevant pages.

I'm trying to modify mod_mainmenu.php to add link tags around each image, but I find that my changes don't show up in the reloaded page.  The issue seems to be related to the constant declaration near the beginning of the file:


if (!defined( '_MOS_MAINMENU_MODULE' )){
        /** ensure that functions are declared only once */
        define( '_MOS_MAINMENU_MODULE', 1 );


Anything I add outside this declaration is run when the page reloads, but anything within isn't.  This seems to effectively block me from editing any of the functions within - because _MOS_MAINMENU_MODULE is a constant, I can't change or redefine it.  It doesn't expire between page refreshes.

Am I missing something obvious?