Hooks for custom module

Question

I'm using Solspace favorites module and am looking to automatically add new entries+comments to the DB in a separate Favorites Collection to mark entries as either read or unread (fav or not fav).

Basic thinking: A “new entry” gets added by user (channel form) and after it’s all submitted, write to the Favorties table in the DB :

• Get all members active in the last X weeks (don’t want all or guests)
• Grab the submitted entry_id
• Grab the Favorites collection_id (read_unread)
• Recursively write to the favourites table in the DB (member_id, collection_y, entry_id, time_z)

Now on the front (using Favorites tag) when returning a list of entries – I can check for the existence of the entry_id and member_id - if there is a match I can visually mark that entry for that user as UNREAD (fav) or READ (not fav).

Continuing on, someone adds a comment to an entry. Need to mark it as UNREAD (new) so delete all instances and replace:

• Delete all DB entries where the collection = Y and the entry_id = X
• Get all members active in the last X weeks (don’t want all or guests)
• Grab the submitted entry_id
• Grab the Favorites collection_id (read_unread)
• Recursively write to the favourites table in the DB (member_id, collection_y, entry_id, time_z)

A member is deleted:

• Delete all favourites where member_id = member being deleted and collection = Y.

Members visit an entry:

• Grab the entry_id
• If entry_id, member_id + collection_y exists then delete it effectively marking it as READ.

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This is all invisible to the user, I don’t need anything returned simply fired after add/deleting/viewing – hence I’m informed I need to build a module/Extension combo.

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Am I correct in my assumptions below that these are the primary Hooks needed to get this functioning?

ADD COMMENT: comment_form_end($res)

DELETE COMMENT: delete_comment_additional($comment_ids)

ADD ENTRY: channel_form_submit_entry_end()

DELETE MEMBER: member_delete($member_ids)

VIEW ENTRY: template_post_parse($final_template, $is_partial, $site_id)

Answer 1

It looks like your on the right lines here. A single extension should be sufficient. The other option is to trigger standard Solspace Fav tags using AJAX requests but your proposed approach would be much more robust. :)

Answer 2

Ended up using the following hooks in a custom module/extension that requires Solspace Favorites:

Custom Module: markasread

{exp:readunread:markasread entryID="{entry_id}"}

Deletes the entry from Solspace Favorites table where entry_id, member_id and Collection = true.

channel_form_submit_entry_end()

Gathers active members in the last X days array, grabs entry_id + writes to Solspace Favorites module/DB for active members array.

insert_comment_end()

Same as above but DELETES all related entries in the Favourites table prior to inserting.

When members are deleted or entries deleted, Solspace Favorites takes over with its in-built routines.