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Tiggr asked the question above:
"How may I use CiviCRM-Hooks from inside a component, not an module?"

I am wondering about the same thing... is it possible? Any examples?

Thanks

Yes... the use case is what I posted here:
http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php?topic=13447

I actually got a very simple Drupal module working already...
Whenever a Contact is created or edited it will:
(1) send me an email and
(2) it checks my phpList database to see if the email address exists already, and if not it adds the email to that db (we currently use phplist for email newsletters).

So what I am wondering is if the hooks (like hook_civicrm_post) can be setup to work from a component instead of a Drupal module. Correct me if I am wrong, but (in theory) a component could be used by either Drupal or Joomla where as the Drupal module is obviously only available to Drupal users.

Having never worked with either Drupal or CiviCRM until a couple of days ago, I found setting up the Drupal module was suprisingly easy... probably took me less than 3 hours from start to finish including reading the docs.

I am however having a little more difficulty with setting up a component! So are the hooks are available to a component? And if they are, how would you set it up within that component.

Once I get it working (if its possible) I will contribute my example to the documentation so there is a basic model for others to work from.

Thanks

Ok, I will post my Drupal module code in the other post mentioned above.

Thanks