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function hook_field_purge_field in Drupal 7

Same name and namespace in other branches
  1. 8 core/modules/field/field.api.php \hook_field_purge_field()
  2. 9 core/modules/field/field.api.php \hook_field_purge_field()

Acts when a field record is being purged.

In field_purge_field(), after the field configuration has been removed from the database, the field storage module has had a chance to run its hook_field_storage_purge_field(), and the field info cache has been cleared, this hook is invoked on all modules to allow them to respond to the field being purged.

Parameters

$field: The field being purged.

Related topics

Field CRUD API
Create, update, and delete Field API fields, bundles, and instances.
Hooks
Allow modules to interact with the Drupal core.
1 invocation of hook_field_purge_field()
field_purge_field in modules/field/field.crud.inc
Purges a field record from the database.

File

modules/field/field.api.php, line 2633
Hooks provided by the Field module.

Code

function hook_field_purge_field($field) {
  db_delete('my_module_field_info')
    ->condition('id', $field['id'])
    ->execute();
}