On 31 Aug 2006, at 10:01 PM, Jeff Eaton wrote:


Perhaps what we should ask is, 'OTHER than rolling back an important

piece of code recapturing, how can we make the new mechanism as easy for

developers as the old one was?' Not _the same as_ but _as easy as_.

Perhaps a helper function to 'register' your module's CRUD without

altering any form arrays? Perhaps node_save() existing as a wrapper

function for the functionality?

I've mentioned this before, but hooks are also callbacks, you could make the node
form register them automatically.

ie:
if (function_exists($node->type . '_validate')) {
  $form['#validate][$node->type . '_validate'] = array();
} 
foreach (module_implements('nodeapi') as $module) {
  $form['#validate'][$module . '_nodeapi'] = array('validate');
}

that would remove all unneccesary form alters, but would require the function definition of node api to change.