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10/22/2012 07:09:37 PM (13 years ago)
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  • Ticket #22256

    • Property Summary changed from Hook namespaceing to Hook namespacing

  • Ticket #22256 – Description

    initial v1  
    1 We have a handy `remove_action()` function, but it works only if you can acquire the exact callback that was passed to add_action(), which is tricky when it comes to:
     1Currently, callbacks passed to add_action() and add_filter() are already sort of namespaced by the hook name, by the callback itself, by priority and by argument count.
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    3 * class instance methods, where you don't have access to the instance
    4 * PHP 5.3 closures
     3You need to know all of them in order to use `remove_action()` successfully.
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    6 Introducing namespaces for hooks, similar to jQuery's [http://docs.jquery.com/Namespaced_Events namespaced events], we would not only take care of that problem, but also enable things like:
     5Acquiring the callback is especially problematic when it's:
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    8 * remove all callbacks to 'the_content' added by plugin X
    9 * remove all callbacks to the 'parse_query' action added by theme Y
     7* an instance method, and you don't have access to the instance
     8* a PHP 5.3 closure
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     10Introducing namespaces for hooks, similar to jQuery's [http://docs.jquery.com/Namespaced_Events namespaced events], would not only take care of that problem, but also enable things like removing all callbacks added by plugin X, regardless of hook name or anything else.
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     12Proposed syntax:
     13
     14{{{
     15add_action( 'after_setup_theme.twentytwelve', function() {
     16  // do stuff
     17}
     18
     19add_action( 'after_setup_theme.twentytwelve', function() {
     20  // do more stuff
     21}
     22
     23add_filter( 'parse_query.p2p', function() {
     24  // do stuff
     25}
     26}}}
     27
     28Later:
     29
     30{{{
     31// remove specific callbacks added by the Twentytwelve theme
     32remove_action( 'after_setup_theme.twentytwelve' );
     33
     34// remove all callbacks added by the P2P plugin
     35remove_action( '*.p2p' );
     36}}}