Same name and namespace in other branches

1. 7.x modules/system/system.api.php \hook_entity_insert()
2. 9 core/lib/Drupal/Core/Entity/entity.api.php \hook_entity_insert()
3. 8.9.x core/lib/Drupal/Core/Entity/entity.api.php \hook_entity_insert()
4. 11.x core/lib/Drupal/Core/Entity/entity.api.php \hook_entity_insert()

Respond to creation of a new entity.

This hook runs once the entity has been stored. Note that hook implementations may not alter the stored entity data.

Parameters

\Drupal\Core\Entity\EntityInterface $entity: The entity object.

See also

hook_ENTITY_TYPE_insert()

Related topics

15 functions implement hook_entity_insert()

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.

CommentHooks::entityInsert in core/modules/comment/src/Hook/CommentHooks.php

Implements hook_entity_insert().

comment_entity_insert in core/modules/comment/comment.module

Implements hook_entity_insert().

ContentModerationHooks::entityInsert in core/modules/content_moderation/src/Hook/ContentModerationHooks.php

Implements hook_entity_insert().

ContentModerationTestResaveHooks::entityInsert in core/modules/content_moderation/tests/modules/content_moderation_test_resave/src/Hook/ContentModerationTestResaveHooks.php

Implements hook_entity_insert().

content_moderation_entity_insert in core/modules/content_moderation/content_moderation.module

Implements hook_entity_insert().

... See full list

File

core/lib/Drupal/Core/Entity/entity.api.php, line 1173

Code

function hook_entity_insert(\Drupal\Core\Entity\EntityInterface $entity) {
  // Insert the new entity into a fictional table of all entities.
  \Drupal::database()->insert('example_entity')
    ->fields([
    'type' => $entity->getEntityTypeId(),
    'id' => $entity->id(),
    'created' => \Drupal::time()->getRequestTime(),
    'updated' => \Drupal::time()->getRequestTime(),
  ])
    ->execute();
}

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