Re: [development] hook_foo() vs. nodeapi

Khalid B wrote:

If the module defines a node type, we can still use nodeapi('view'), and check $node->type = 'mytype' and do whatever we would do in the mytype_view() hook.

Or am I missing something?

Order of operations. If you just use nodeapi, it's hard to tell where exactly yours will come, even though you own the module. If you use foo_hook() you know yours is the only one using that, so you know exactly what order they'll happen in -- nodeapi will either come before or after you, completely.