$op can also be 'prepare', this is not mentioned in the API docs: http://api.drupal.org/api/4.7/function/hook_nodeapi

There is some mention of it here: http://drupal.org/node/22218. Having that API documentation up-to-date would be a blessing. It's hard to develop/debug without it.

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pwolanin commented

Looks like you're correct, though I'm not quite sure what the prepare op is for.

Do you have CVS access? anyone who does can fix the developer docs. I updated hook_nodeapi not too long ago since the "submit" op was incorrrectly listed as "execute"...

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jax commented

I don't have CVS access but even if I did I don't think I would be the person to update it with information about 'prepare'. The only thing I know about it is what I found at the links in the issue description. Someone with some more knowledge about the forms api should be able to describe more clearly what it does.

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pwolanin commented
Status: Active » Fixed

This seems to have been fixed in the docs for 5.0/HEAD (5 weeks ago by jakeg):

http://cvs.drupal.org/viewcvs/drupal/contributions/docs/developer/hooks/...

# "prepare": The node is about to be shown on the add/edit form

Somehow this change seems to have been lost when webchick branched the docs for 4.7. I'll add the same to the 4.7 docs.

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Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)