API Sequences: node life cycle

(in Drupal 4.6.x)

… during the building of the various pages creating and editing a custom node…, as noted on a 4.6.3 installation during the development of the helpdesk module

Table of hook calls seen by a module

Sequence of hooks fired	1: New	2: Preview	3: Submit invalid new	4: Submit valid new	5: Redirect after create	6: View node	7: Edit node	8: Track node
hook_menu	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
hook_access					1 per node type
hook_node_types	X
hook_user('load')	no uid name	no uid name	no uid name	no uid name
hook_load					valid nid	valid nid	valid nid	valid nid
hook_nodeapi ('load')					valid nid	valid nid	valid nid	valid nid
hook_menu					X
hook_user('load')							no uid name of node owner
hook_validate	builtin fields	builtin fields module fields no object	builtin fields module fields no object	builtin fields module fields no object			builtin fields loaded object
hook_nodeapi('validate'	X	X	X	X			valid nid
hook_nodeapi('fields')				X
hook_insert				builtin fields module fields no object valid nid
hook_nodeapi('insert')				valid nid
hook_user('load')		no uid name	no uid name
hook_view		builtin fields module fields no object	builtin fields loaded object		valid nid	valid nid
hook_nodeapi('view')			X		valid nid	valid nid
hook_nodeapi('form pre')	X	X	X				valid nid
hook_form	builtin fields	builtin fields module fields no object	builtin fields module fields no object				builtin fields loaded object
hook_nodeapi('form post')	X	X	X				valid nid
hook_nodeapi('form admin')	X	X	X				valid nid
hook_nodeapi('form param')	X	X	X				valid nid
hook_node_name	X	X	X	valid nid
hook_node_types	X		X	X	X	X	X	X
hook_block	1 per block	1 per block	1 per block	1 per block	1 per block	1 per block	1 per block	1 per block
hook_help('node/...')	add/<node type>	add/<node type>	add/<node type>	add/<node type>	<nid>	<nid>	<nid>/edit	<nid>/track

Notes

The difference between 'modules fields' and 'loaded object' occurs if the module defines the additional fields it handles as fields as wrapped in an object elswehere

“Module fields” is just a set of array entries made available, intermixed with the builtin array entries
“Loaded object” refers the same, but when they are returned by core as the wrapper object.

Basically, modules fields are returned from a HTML form, whereas a loaded object comes from the DB.

Of course, any additional calls done by the module will appear somewhere in between these. For instance, helpdesk loads the information about a contract's customer, which is a drupal USER, so

hook_user('load')

is fired from the module.

Similarly, any call to l() causes hook_link to be fired too.

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API Sequences: node life cycle

Table of hook calls seen by a module

Notes