what can replace hook [closed]

Question

I am a newbie into Drupal.

what else other than module name can replace 'hook' from any hook function in Drupal?
For ex. "myModule" replaces hook in hook_form_alter and defined as 'myModule_form_alter'

Answer 1

If you are particularly looking at theme hooks following from https://www.packtpub.com/books/content/drupal-7-module-development-drupals-theme-layer can be useful.

All preprocess functions run before all process functions template_ prefixed functions run frst. [module]_ prefixed functions run next. [theme]_ prefixed functions run last Multi-hook functions run before hook-specific functions This results in the following order of execution for a particular theme hook:

template_preprocess()

template_preprocesss_HOOK()

MODULE_preprocess()

THEME_preprocess()

THEME_preprocess_HOOK()

template_process()

template_processs_HOOK()

MODULE_process()

MODULE_process_HOOK()

THEME_process()

THEME_process_HOOK()

Answer 2

Any alter hook and preprocess hooks that is defined inside a module can also be defined inside the theme as well. So if you are using Bartik theme you can open the Bartik's template.php file and use

function bartik_form_alter(){}

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UPDATE

Checking the Is it possible to define hook functions in template.php instead of the module? can also be helpful.