function hook_entity_delete in Drupal 7

Same name and namespace in other branches

1. 8 core/lib/Drupal/Core/Entity/entity.api.php \hook_entity_delete()
2. 9 core/lib/Drupal/Core/Entity/entity.api.php \hook_entity_delete()

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 modules/simpletest/tests/entity_crud_hook_test.module

Implements hook_entity_delete().

6 invocations of hook_entity_delete()

comment_delete_multiple in modules/comment/comment.module

Delete comments and all their replies.

file_delete in includes/file.inc

Deletes a file and its database record.

node_delete_multiple in modules/node/node.module

Deletes multiple nodes.

taxonomy_term_delete in modules/taxonomy/taxonomy.module

Delete a term.

taxonomy_vocabulary_delete in modules/taxonomy/taxonomy.module

Deletes a vocabulary.

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File

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();
}