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On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 4:05 PM, David Stein <steinwrites4u at yahoo.com> wrote:
> please
>
> --- On Fri, 1/2/09, Shai Gluskin <shai at content2zero.com> wrote:
>
> From: Shai Gluskin <shai at content2zero.com>
> Subject: Re: [support] inter module communication, hooks and dependencies
> To: support at drupal.org
> Date: Friday, January 2, 2009, 9:56 AM
>
> Hi Ivan,
>
> I just looked over your post really quickly. But that quick glance makes me
> think you are need of one or both of the following modules in addition to
> nodewords:
>
> http://drupal.org/project/nodewords_bypath
> http://drupal.org/project/nodewords_nodetype
>
> best,
>
> Shai
> content2zero
>
> On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 9:17 AM, Ivan Sergio Borgonovo <mail at webthatworks.it>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> The actual problem is providing an API to let modules add META in a
>> more structured way so that eg. the same META is not sent 2 times or
>> module can decide to concatenate further meta or define a
>> "owerwriteability" level.
>>
>> I gave a look to nodewords aka Meta tags but I have stuff that
>> aren't nodes (they aren't views or taxonomies either) that don't fit
>> with the node paradigm too well.
>>
>> nodewords provide a hook to 'prepare' META but it is on a module
>> base.
>> Nodewords needs to be aware of all the content types (or just pages,
>> menu_hook etc...) it can support (*unless I'm missing something...*)
>> but actually what know better which are the most suitable meta for a
>> "content" should be the content producer (be it a "node" or just a
>> MENU_CALLBACK).
>> Other modules like nodewords_bypath and _nodetype do some extrawork
>> to know what actually called the hook.
>> But I'd find myself more comfortable with a different approach:
>> - there is a common API that let me manage META
>> - modules that want to add META use it
>> - when everything is ready drupal_set_html_head get called
>>
>> The problem is:
>> - the API functions should be ready when other modules call them
>> - drupal_set_html_head($meta) should be called last
>>
>> If the weight of my meta module is high, other modules won't find
>> the functions.
>> If the weight of my module is low and I put
>> drupal_set_html_head($meta) in the menu hook, drupal_set_html_head
>> will be called before $meta had the chance to be filled by other
>> modules.
>>
>> I'd say this is a general common problem but I didn't find any
>> "drupalish" way to solve it.
>>
>> The easiest (and somehow elegant) way I thought to deal with this
>> problem was to build up 2 modules with different weight):
>> - meta_prepare (that will offer the functions)
>> - meta_deliver (that will simply call drupal_set_html_head)
>>
>> Is there a more drupalish way to deal with dependency and "order of
>> execution" in drupal?
>>
>> thanks
>>
>> --
>> Ivan Sergio Borgonovo
>> http://www.webthatworks.it
>>
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