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__); }
Project information
- Minimally maintained
Maintainers monitor issues, but fast responses are not guaranteed. - Maintenance fixes only
Considered feature-complete by its maintainers. - Module categories: Developer Tools
- 5,843 sites report using this module
- Created by sinasalek on , updated
- Stable releases for this project are covered by the security advisory policy.
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Releases
Added Drupal 10 support
Development version: 8.x-1.x-dev updated 16 Mar 2023 at 19:03 UTC
Development version: 7.x-1.x-dev updated 4 Nov 2018 at 11:43 UTC