[development] Rename hook_menu ?

[Metzler, David]

I agree.  We are basically defining the entry points and access control
to the appliction.  Yes, it's more than a menu, but I don't find it to
be fully fledged "controller" either. And calling it a controller sort
of hints incorrectly at that it does more than you'd think. 
 
In short, I don't find the use of menu innapropriate enough or feel that
the other replacement terms communicate more to a new developer. Menu is
close enough.  

Dave

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From: development-bounces at drupal.org
[mailto:development-bounces at drupal.org] On Behalf Of Zohar Stolar
Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 3:34 AM
To: development at drupal.org
Subject: Re: [development] Rename hook_menu ?



It's true, but hook_menu is, after all, dealing with paths and links.

Paths and links are what allows us to navigate inside a site, and they
are commonly combined in a menu.

If we checked it statistically, I'm sure we would have found that most
of the items in the menu hook are not actually visible as menu items,
but when thinking of a menu i a larger context, we find it's not at all
a bad name.

A menu is a representation of a site's structure, whether it's a logical
structure, or a more physic one. So in this way - even if an item is not
visible, it's still part of the structure, and as a result - has its
place in the menu.




Zohar



Karoly Negyesi wrote: 

	Today it was raised in #drupal that hook_menu has so little to
do with menus nowadays that 
	
	hook_control 
	
	is likely to be a better name for the system. Thoughts are
welcome. MVC flames are not. 
	
	Regards 
	
	NK 
	
	

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