[development] Convention for naming contrib hooks?

[Aaron Winborn]

Yes, that same issue w/ filefield caught me once too -- I believe it was 
implemented earlier this year as an attempt to backport part of the File 
API from core d7 to contrib d6.

I use hook_HOOKMODULE_HOOKNAME(), and see other modules doing that as 
well, though I imagine there are some that use your suggestion as well; 
your idea might be less likely to cause conflicts.

I'm aware of at least two contrib API doxygen scraping sites out there: 
http://drupalcontrib.org/ and http://api.lullabot.com/ (and probably 
others).

I agree that we should come up with a standard naming convention (if 
there isn't one already).

Aaron

arthur wrote:
> Hi-
>
> Forgive me if this question is answered elsewhere- I've not found a 
> comprehensive answer thus far.
>
> With contrib modules sprawling ever more, it's extremely hard to keep 
> track of what modules implement what kinds of hooks. For example, I 
> got caught by file_field's hook_file_delete() when I implemented 
> media_mover_api_file_delete() which had nothing to do with this hook. 
> While I renamed my function, it's challenging at best to know the 
> terrain. Is there a central place where contrib developers can list 
> their hooks, or a naming convention that is agreed to that would help 
> with this (eg: hook_HOOKNAME_HOOKMODULE() or something)?
>
> thanks,
>
> arthur


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