function hook_entity_delete

1 entity.api.php hook_entity_delete($entity, $type)

Respond to entity deletion.

This hook runs after the entity type-specific delete hook.

Parameters

$entity: The entity object for the entity that has been deleted.

$type: The type of entity being deleted (i.e. node, user, comment).

Related topics

Hooks Allow modules to interact with the Backdrop core.

5 functions implement 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.

entityreference_entity_delete in core/modules/entityreference/entityreference.module: Implements hook_entity_delete().
entity_crud_hook_test_entity_delete in core/modules/entity/tests/entity_crud_hook_test/entity_crud_hook_test.module: Implements hook_entity_delete().
filter_entity_delete in core/modules/filter/filter.module: Implements hook_entity_delete().
path_entity_delete in core/modules/path/path.module: Implements hook_entity_delete().
redirect_entity_delete in core/modules/redirect/redirect.module: Implements hook_entity_delete().

8 invocations of hook_entity_delete()

EntityDatabaseStorageController::delete in core/modules/entity/entity.controller.inc: Implements EntityStorageControllerInterface::delete().
EntityExampleBasicController::deleteMultiple in modules/examples/entity_example/entity_example.inc: Delete one or more entity_example_basic entities.
field_attach_delete in core/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 core/modules/field/field.crud.inc: Purges the field data for a single field on a single pseudo-entity.
Layout::delete in core/modules/layout/includes/layout.class.inc: Delete this layout.

... See full list

File

core/modules/entity/entity.api.php, line 321: Hooks provided by the Entity 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();
}