[documentation] [Documentation feature] Request: Better description of when API hooks are called

[drumdance]

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 Project:      Documentation
 Version:      <none>
 Component:    Developer Guide
 Category:     feature requests
 Priority:     normal
 Assigned to:  Anonymous
 Reported by:  drumdance
 Updated by:   drumdance
 Status:       active

The current documentation for hooks doesn't really make clear under what
circumstances certain hooks are called. I had some trouble understanding
when/if hook_load and hook_validate get called [1] under various
circumstances. As it stands, I *still* can't get hook_validate to be
invoked. 


The same is true with nodeapi - sometimes certain operations get
called, and other times they don't. But the current version of the
nodeapi documentation [2] suggests that all of the functions get called
in the same order every time. And as with the hook_ problem above, I
can't get the "validate" $op to trigger at all.
[1] http://drupal.org//node/72951
[2] http://api.drupal.org/api/4.7/function/hook_nodeapi




drumdance