function hook_entity_presave

Same name and namespace in other branches
  1. 9 core/lib/Drupal/Core/Entity/entity.api.php \hook_entity_presave()
  2. 8.9.x core/lib/Drupal/Core/Entity/entity.api.php \hook_entity_presave()
  3. 10 core/lib/Drupal/Core/Entity/entity.api.php \hook_entity_presave()
  4. 11.x core/lib/Drupal/Core/Entity/entity.api.php \hook_entity_presave()

Act on an entity before it is about to be created or updated.

Parameters

$entity: The entity object.

$type: The type of entity being saved (i.e. node, user, comment).

Related topics

Hooks
Allow modules to interact with the Drupal core.
10 functions implement hook_entity_presave()

Note: the procedural functions in this list are found by pattern matching, so the list may include some functions that are not actually implementations of this hook.

ContentModerationHooks::entityPresave in core/modules/content_moderation/src/Hook/ContentModerationHooks.php
Implements hook_entity_presave().
ContentTranslationHooks::entityPresave in core/modules/content_translation/src/Hook/ContentTranslationHooks.php
Implements hook_entity_presave().
EntityCrudHookTestHooks::entityPresave in core/modules/system/tests/modules/entity_crud_hook_test/src/Hook/EntityCrudHookTestHooks.php
Implements hook_entity_presave().
EntityOperations::entityPresave in core/modules/workspaces/src/Hook/EntityOperations.php
Implements hook_entity_presave().
EntityTestHooks::entityPresave in core/modules/system/tests/modules/entity_test/src/Hook/EntityTestHooks.php
Implements hook_entity_presave().

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6 invocations of hook_entity_presave()
comment_save in modules/comment/comment.module
Accepts a submission of new or changed comment content.
file_save in includes/file.inc
Saves a file object to the database.
node_save in modules/node/node.module
Saves changes to a node or adds a new node.
taxonomy_term_save in modules/taxonomy/taxonomy.module
Saves a term object to the database.
taxonomy_vocabulary_save in modules/taxonomy/taxonomy.module
Saves a vocabulary.

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File

modules/system/system.api.php, line 316

Code

function hook_entity_presave($entity, $type) {
    $entity->changed = REQUEST_TIME;
}

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