[development] MYSQL queries and Modules

[Earnie Boyd]

Pierre Rineau wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-02-27 at 11:31 -0800, nan wich wrote:
> 
>> Ah, see now you say that 10% of hook_init's are appropriate, so
>> telling someone to always avoid it is bad advice. In all the coding
>> that I have done, I have used hook_init() maybe three times (twice I
>> know for sure). And one was largely a toss up between hook_init() and
>> hook_boot() and I can guarantee was needed. And you probably add
>> hook_exit() to the list of questionable usage.
> 
> Don't make me say something I didn't mean. What I really meant is that
> hook_init() should never be used, some modules legally uses it as a way
> to set up some context related information because no other helpers
> exists in core (that's actually part of the butler project on g.d.o).
> But aside of that, all hook_init() implementations should be banned. In
> fact even existing one (I'm thinking about D6 OG module) can show
> themselves being incredibly slow under certain circumstances.
> 

I'm going to agree with Nan Wich and say that your explicit "never use"
statement is overboard.  If used properly hook_init is a must.  However,
I do understand that there is improper use of the hook and grabbing a
bunch of data from the DB should never be one.

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