By skourak on

Hey all,

I need some help with what should be a simple matter: what is the way to differentiate between a user creating a new node vs editing an existing one? I'm trying to limit a certain content type to one per user, and thus I want to stop the creation of new nodes of that type if one by that user exists already.

I've tried hooking hook_nodeapi() and processing the 'prepare' operation, but as far as I can tell there is no way to distinguish between an add and an edit there. Can someone please shed some light? perhaps I should be looking at a different hook instead?

Thanks in advance for any advice!

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nevets commented

You might want to check out the Node Limit module which already provide the functionality.

As for you question check $node->nid which should be non zero for existing nodes and zero/unset for new nodes for any operation that occur before the node is saved.

skourak’s picture

skourak commented

Excellent information, exactly what I needed. Much appreciated!