Magento overloading a controller

I know there are a lot of examples out there for this issue and i think i read all of them, at least I feel so, a little bit confused :-) I think first of all i need basic conzept respectively a better appreciation of how is the best way to change the whole customer frontend dashboard and extend it with additional methods. I stuck a litte bit with this, maybe this is the wrong way, maybe not, hopefully you can help me finding the right way.

All needed files are located i开发者_JAVA百科n:

app/code/local/Company/Customer/etc/config.xml

app/code/local/Company/Customer/controllers/AccountController.php

app/code/local/Company/Customer/controllers/IndexController.php

Atm I play with these path's:

domain.com/customer/

overwritten by:

<frontend>
    <routers>    
       <customer>
          <use>standard</use>
          <args>
             <module>Company_Customer</module>
             <frontName>customer</frontName>
          </args>
       </customer>
   </routers>
</frontend>

the above code is working, the overloading class is executed with the following function:

function indexAction();

and the path: domain.com/customer/ or domain.com/customer/index/ is functional.

So far, so good. But now I also need all the other path's and their functionality, e.g. the domain.com/customer/account/ path, normally executed and routed to the following path:

app/code/core/Mage/Customer/controllers/AccountController.php

and here's the crux, is it possible to load the AccountController by execute or load them in the IndexController.php class with a new method e.g. function accountAction(); and stop Magento routing to the above core path? Or is it better to do this the way I did by rewrite the magento router to my own module, to:

app/code/local/Company/Customer/controllers/AccountController.php

Maybe there are some other ways but my router isn't working:

<frontend>
   <routers>
      <customer_account>
      <use>standard</use>
      <args>
         <module>Company_Customer_Account</module>
         <frontName>customer_account</frontName>
      </args>
      </customer_account>
   </routers>
</frontend>

EDIT:

This is the from the error.log:

2011-07-25T10:36:46+00:00 ERR (3): Warning: include() [<a href='function.include'>function.include</a>]: Failed opening 'Mage/Customer/AccountController.php' for inclusion (include_path='/html/magento/app/code/local:/html/magento/app/code/community:/html/magento/app/code/core:/html/magento/lib:.:/usr/local/php/lib/php:/usr/local/php/lib/php/PEAR')  in /html/magento/lib/Varien/Autoload.php on line 93

I think this means that the router works but the file isn't found, right?!

Any suggestions would be great. Thanks!

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Thanks for your reply. I allready tried the alternative rewrite in the global section before:

<rewrite>
   <Company_Customer_Account>
      <from><![CDATA[#^/customer/account/#]]></from>
      <to>/customer/account/</to>
    </Company_Customer_Account>
</rewrite>

and with your code:

<rewrite>
    <Company_Customer_Account>
      <from>/customer/account/index/</from>
      <to>/customer/account/index/</to>
   </Company_Customer_Account>
</rewrite>

both don't work, what i'm missing?

Here's the AccountController.php

<?php

//require_once 'Mage/Customer/controllers/AccountController.php';

class Extension_Modul_AccountController extends Mage_Customer_AccountController {

    # Overloaded indexAction
    public function indexAction()
    {
        echo "executed";
        parent::indexAction();
    }
}

Your front name : 'customer_account' needs to be as before 'customer' in the second example.

When you do domain.com/customer/ it automatically refers to IndexController -> indexAction();

In order to get domain.com/customer/account it can be done similarly and account here refers not to accountAction but AccountController.

The path system is usually like : Module/SomeController/someAction.

Alternatively you could add in your config global tag, sth like:

<rewrite><module_control_action><from>/module/control/action/</from><to>/mymodule/somecontrol/someaction/</to></module_control_action></rewrite>