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Hooks reference

Hooks are methods of the Plugin class, they are executed in parts of the Castopod codebase.

List

HooksExecutes in
rssBeforeChannelRSS Feed
rssAfterChannelRSS Feed
rssBeforeItemRSS Feed
rssAfterItemRSS Feed
siteHeadWebsite

rssBeforeChannel

This hook is executed just before rendering the <channel> tag in the Podcast RSS feed using the given Podcast object.

Here is a good place to alter the Podcast object.

public function rssBeforeChannel(Podcast $podcast): void
{
// …
}

rssAfterChannel

This hook is executed after rendering all of the <channel> tags in the Podcast RSS feed.

Here is a good place to add new tags to the generated channel.

public function rssAfterChannel(Podcast $podcast, SimpleRSSElement $channel): void
{
// …
}

rssBeforeItem

This hook is executed before rendering an <item> tag in the Podcast RSS feed using the given Episode object.

Here is a good place to alter the Episode object.

public function rssBeforeItem(Episode $episode): void
{
// …
}

rssAfterItem

This hook is executed after rendering an <item>’s tags in the Podcast RSS feed.

Here is a good place to add new tags to the generated item.

public function rssAfterItem(Epsiode $episode, SimpleRSSElement $item): void
{
// …
}

This hook is executed in the public pages’ <head> tag.

This is a good place to add meta tags and third-party scripts to Castopod’s public pages.

public function siteHead(): void
{
// …
}