Learning Apex Programming

Extending control

There are times where it might make more sense to use a custom controller, for example, if the page is not tied to a specific type of sObject. However, there are also times where the page is tied to a specific type of sObject and the standard controller makes more sense, but you just need one extra bit of data or functionality. Unfortunately, pages can only use either a standard controller or a custom controller, but not both.

Don't worry though, there's a simple solution. While you cannot use both a standard controller and custom controller, you can extend either of them with a controller extension. As you probably guessed, an extension is just an Apex class that follows certain syntax. Extensions really do allow you to have ...