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I wonder which files are being considered to go through hook_file_download. When this function is triggered, what are conditions ?

(Generally, how I can track myself hooks conditions ?)

I am trying to put some custom created download links (files are not uploaded via drupal, but link to them are defined manually, as described in this issue.)

EDIT: For those searching for hook_file_download related issue, it seems that it is triggered (also) whenever you try to access a valid link to a file in private filesystem.

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The easiest way to track where core hooks are called, from core code, is to look on the docs page.

For hook_file_download(), you'll see this:

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A nice list of all implementations/invocations of the hook with links to the relevant functions.

For the cases that don't get covered there, I usually just grep the codebase for, e.g.

module_implements('file_download'

That takes me straight to file.inc, and the file_download() function, which I guess answers your main question.

If that's not quite enough, I thoroughly recommend using Eclipse/Netbeans with XDebug which will let you set breakpoints to see what's happening in more depth.

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  • o.O it is triangle toggle icon :) . Somehow I overlooked this for many, many times! Thanks!
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    Yeah I remember the Eureka moment when I found those triangles too ;)
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