By eveltman on

Hello everyone,

After a new node is inserted or an existing node is updated, node.module calls drupal_goto.
I want my still-to-be-written 'nextstep' module to be able to manipulate the destination that Drupal redirects to.

Although I only quickly looked through the attachment.module ( as an example ) and node.module,
I think there's currently no clean way to do this. Am I correct ?

If so, what do you think about adding a 'pre redirect' subhook in hook_nodeapi,
where I can return a string containing the drupal path that the module wants to redirect to ?
If the string is empty, node.module can follow the logic it now does to decide where to redirect.

For an explanation why I want to do this, take a look at http://drupal.org/node/13824

Best regards,

Eric

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killes@www.drop.org’s picture

killes@www.drop.org commented

My suggestion given as acomment to http://drupal.org/node/13824 is still valid. You can add all kind of info through drupal_set_message(). This includes forms, links, and what not. I think the current redirection to the newly created node is the Right Thing(tm) as it lets you check your work. any other offers can be made through drupal_set_message().

I was bored on the train once and created im.module which also (ab)uses drupal_set_message():
http://cvs.drupal.org/viewcvs/drupal/contributions/modules/im/

There you can look for usage examples of drupal_set_message().
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eveltman commented

Sorry, I misunderstood your first reply, I thought it only gave an answer to my first question. You're right, it is indeed better to redirect as usual and display a message with drupal_set_message() that contains the hyperlinks for the next steps.

Thanks for your suggestion !