Learn something new every day! I haven't started playing with D7 yet,
but I can see that becoming a very handy hook.
By the way, do you have a decent reference to the new Database layer for
D7? I got some stuff to start converting and I would like to start that
in the near future.
Jamie Holly
http://www.intoxination.net
http://www.hollyit.net
[email protected] wrote:
Um. hook_query_alter() went into core nearly a year ago as part of
DBTNG. It only applies to dynamic SELECT queries, which is a small
minority of the queries Drupal runs.
Jamie Holly wrote:
> Yeah I agree we really need to keep Drupal lean. I wouldn't want to see
> the entire Views package integrated as-is. I wouldn't mind some of the
> functionality included though that would give an easy way to alter some
> core queries. One that comes to mind is the comment query. Sometimes
> there are needs for extra data from the user table to be pulled in, and
> currently there really isn't an easy way to alter that query in
> comments.module.
>
> I've thought in the past about a hook_query_alter, but that could really
> add some overhead - especially on sites with a large number of queries.
>
> Jamie Holly
> http://www.intoxination.net http://www.hollyit.net
>
>
>
> Earnie Boyd wrote:
>> Quoting Jamie Holly <[email protected]>:
>>
>> > I really like that whole idea. Then we could have handy hooks to >
>> easily modify those queries if someone wishes, like maybe an easy >
>> way to add index hinting.
>> >
>>
>> But we can have those hooks maintained in a contrib module as well.
>> We just need to have a api.contrib.drupal.org or
>> drupal.org/contrib/api. I am with the crowd of keep Drupal core
>> lean. The less optional modules Drupal has to consider the better
>> it would be.
>>
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>>
>>
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