Is there a technique (hook?) To intercept the view when i'm saving it ? [#974576]

I have develop a display-plugin and I would like to save some custom options. not in the view object but rather in a custom table from my DB.

Actually I use the option_submit() method to save these options but it isn't good cause the save is performed on the submit of the option form, not on the save of the view wich lead to inconsistency (the user cancel his modification in the view but in my custom table those chage are preserved,....).

Thanks for any advice.

Comments

Comment #1

dawehner

German

commented 17 November 2010 at 21:28

I'm quite sure that there is a issue about this topic already, but i can't find this issue. It should be in the queue.
This added a new hook

There is no hook beside using form-api at the moment.

Comment #2

dimiduj commented 18 November 2010 at 12:59

Thanks for your support,

I'm sorry but I don't find the issue you are talking about...

I was wondering if there are reasons (performance issues, ...) to not implement such hooks ?

Finally, I 've skip the problem using a form_alter:
no hooks needed anymore on the save.
Is this solution correct ?

function mymodule_form_alter(&$form, &$form_state, $form_id){
  if($form_id=='views_ui_edit_view_form'){
    $form['buttons']['save']["#submit"]=array_merge(array('mymodule_save_views_layout'),$form['buttons']['save']["#submit"]);    
  }
}

function mymodule_save_views_layout($form,$form_state){
  //Do what I need
}