Posted by cyu on March 11, 2008 at 2:00pm
Right now hooks execute according to the weights assigned to their containing modules in the system table. This means there is no way for module1 to implement hook_form_alter before module2 and also implement hook_nodeapi after module2. I'd like to see an ajaxy interface for defining weights on a per hook basis. This also would generate a summary page for seeing every module that implements a particular hook and the order of execution. Taking this even further would be the idea of weighting based on hook parameters, such as $op...but I'm not so sure about that.
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I like this
As an advanced (read optional) module, I really like this idea. But how to implement in core? Perhaps just allow hooks to define an order. I don't know.
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There's talk of the Registry
There's talk of the Registry making this a lot easier to support: http://drupal.org/node/221964
Once the Registry is in, I
Once the Registry is in, I intend to code this, the skeleton is in my sandbox since 2006 december.
Sweet. I guess that rules it
Sweet. I guess that rules it out for SoC, but I'm looking forward to seeing this feature in...especially combined with the hook_form_$form-id_alter() functionality.