hook_post_action

You don't need this module unless you're either a developer or another module you're using depends on it.

Currently Drupal core does not offer any hook to do actions after a node/entity is insered/updated/deleted in the database. So this module introduces several new Drupal hooks to overcome this limitation:

• hook_entity_postsave
• hook_entity_postinsert
• hook_entity_postupdate
• hook_entity_postdelete
• hook_node_postsave
• hook_node_postinsert
• hook_node_postupdate
• hook_node_postdelete

Installation

Install and enable the module as usual.

Usage

Please read the hook_post_action.api file.

Also if you want to quickly see it working, you can enable the bundled module hook_post_action_example, add/delete/update some content and visit the logs at /admin/reports/dblog. You'll see log messages for each hook that was fired.

WARNING: The _postsave, _postinsert and _postupdate hooks are also called when the entity/node is deleted, as there is no way to find out whether the entity/node is actually saved/inserted/updated. However, the module does only call the delete hooks when the entity/node is actually deleted from database.

A simple example

<?php
/**
 * Gets called after a node has been deleted from database.
 *
 * @param $node
 *   A node object
 *
 * @see hook_node_postsave()
 * @see hook_node_postinsert()
 * @see hook_node_postupdate()
 * @see hook_node_postdelete()
 */
function hook_post_action_example_node_postdelete($node) {
  watchdog('hook_post_action_test', "The deleted node {$node->type} id is {$node->nid} from " . __FUNCTION__);
}