function hook_entity_delete
7.x system.api.php | hook_entity_delete($entity, $type) |
Act on entities when deleted.
Parameters
$entity: The entity object.
$type: The type of entity being deleted (i.e. node, user, comment).
Related topics
1 function implements hook_entity_delete()
Note: this list is generated by pattern matching, so it may include some functions that are not actually implementations of this hook.
- entity_crud_hook_test_entity_delete in drupal-7.x/
modules/ simpletest/ tests/ entity_crud_hook_test.module - Implements hook_entity_delete().
9 invocations of hook_entity_delete()
- comment_delete_multiple in drupal-7.x/
modules/ comment/ comment.module - Delete comments and all their replies.
- field_attach_delete in drupal-7.x/
modules/ field/ field.attach.inc - Delete field data for an existing entity. This deletes all revisions of field data for the entity.
- field_purge_data in drupal-7.x/
modules/ field/ field.crud.inc - Purges the field data for a single field on a single pseudo-entity.
- file_delete in drupal-7.x/
includes/ file.inc - Deletes a file and its database record.
- node_delete_multiple in drupal-7.x/
modules/ node/ node.module - Deletes multiple nodes.
File
- drupal-7.x/
modules/ system/ system.api.php, line 371 - Hooks provided by Drupal core and the System module.
Code
function hook_entity_delete($entity, $type) {
// Delete the entity's entry from a fictional table of all entities.
$info = entity_get_info($type);
list($id) = entity_extract_ids($type, $entity);
db_delete('example_entity')
->condition('type', $type)
->condition('id', $id)
->execute();
}