[development] hook_nodeapi()

[Rob Barreca]

> All four of the module-defined node types that are still in 5.0 core
> (blog, book, forum, and poll) can and should be made history, and in
> their place we can just have hook_nodeapi() implementations
I definitely agree, but envision some module ordering/weighting issues 
that will need to be worked out as we begin to unify these since you 
lose the pre-nodeapi hooks and have everything going at the same "time". 
chx has done some prelim work on this at 
http://cvs.drupal.org/viewcvs/drupal/contributions/sandbox/chx/weights.php?rev=1.4&view=log 
but not sure how far along it is.

Rob Roy Barreca
Founder and COO
Electronic Insight Corporation
http://www.electronicinsight.com
rob at electronicinsight.com



Jeremy Epstein wrote:
> In Drupal 5.0, the difference between hook_insert() / hook_update()
> and friends, and hook_nodeapi(), is smaller than ever; and there is
> less need than ever to actually still have the former in core. With
> the new CCK-partially-in-core features, it's likely that before long,
> there will be no such thing as module-defined node types. There will
> only be user-defined node types.
>
> All four of the module-defined node types that are still in 5.0 core
> (blog, book, forum, and poll) can and should be made history, and in
> their place we can just have hook_nodeapi() implementations, that
> allow the same functionality to be available to custom node types
> (there's also a push to make poll a CCK field type, rather than a
> node-type-ish thing).
>
> To, in summary: your confusion is understandable! And, since we're
> pushing for more widespread use of custom content types, I would
> advise trying to use only hook_nodeapi() in your contrib modules from
> now on, unless you have a use case where module-defined node types are
> really appropriate (and such use cases are rare).
>
> Cheers,
> Jaza.
>
> On 1/3/07, Fernando Silva <fsilva.pt at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> In the following page
>> http://api.drupal.org/api/HEAD/function/hook_nodeapi it says: "If you
>> are writing a node module, do not use this hook to perform actions on
>> your type of node alone. Instead, use the hooks set aside for node
>> modules, such as hook_insert() and hook_form()."
>>
>> My question is why is it better to use the standalone functions
>> instead of the centralized one?
>>
>> Regards,
>>   Fernando Silva
>>