Talking Drupal #510 - Drupal Hooks: Drop 'em like they're hot

Today we are talking about Drupal Hooks, why they got changed in core, and what to do now with guest Karoly Négyesi better known as Chx. We'll also cover Media Folders as our module of the week.

For show notes visit:
https://www.talkingDrupal.com/510

Topics

• Deep Dive into Drupal Hooks
• The Evolution of Drupal Hooks
• Challenges and Solutions in Hook Conversion
• Community Involvement and Contributions
• The Future of Drupal Hook System
• Introduction to Procedural Hooks
• Understanding Theme Hooks
• Complexities of Preprocess Hooks
• Converting Hooks to Object-Oriented
• Impact on Contributed Modules
• Challenges in Core Conversion
• Future of Drupal Hooks
• Lightning Round and Conclusion

Resources

• Hooks becoming OOP
• Convert everything everwhere all at once
  • Conversion script
  • Conversion patches
• Ordering hooks OOP
• Preprocess hooks
• Render API change
• 2009 issue for form api ungrokable
• 2007 change for calling themes hook
• Giant issue with all of the hook related