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What hook are trying to use? I can confirm that creating a custom module and pulling data from custom_data tables works properly. Keep at it, it can be frustrating at first.

Module registered and enabled,  code is taken directly from the developer section of the online documentation:

http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC40/CiviCRM+hook+specification

I started out using Joomla,  when I couldnt get hooks to work I gave drupal a go,

I used the example code for hook_civicrm_post:

Here is a simple example that will send you an email whenever an INDIVIDUAL Contact is either Added, Updated or Deleted:

Create a new folder called example_sendEmailOnIndividual in this directory /drupal_install_dir/sites/all/modules/civicrm/drupal/modules/ and then put the following two files in that directory (change the email addresses to yours).

FILE #1 /drupal_install_dir/sites/all/modules/civicrm/drupal/modules/example_sendEmailOnIndividual/example_sendEmailOnIndividual.info
name = Example Send Email On Individual
description = Example that will send an email when an Individual Contact is Added, Updated or Deleted.
dependencies[] = civicrm
package = CiviCRM
core = 6.x
version = 1.0
FILE #2 /drupal_install_dir/sites/all/modules/civicrm/drupal/modules/example_sendEmailOnIndividual/example_sendEmailOnIndividual.module
 <?php
function exampleSendEmailOnIndividual_civicrm_post($op, $objectName, $objectId, &$objectRef) {

  /**************************************************************
   * Send an email when Individual Contact is CREATED or EDITED or DELETED
   */
  $send_an_email = false; //Set to TRUE for DEBUG only
  $email_to = 'me@mydomain.com'; //TO email address
  $email_from = 'me@mydomain.com'; //FROM email address
  $email_sbj = 'CiviCRM exampleSendEmailOnIndividual';
  $email_msg = "CiviCRM exampleSendEmailOnIndividual was called.\n".$op." ".$objectName."\n".$objectId." ";

  if ($op == 'create' && $objectName == 'Individual') {
    $email_sbj .= "- ADDED NEW contact";
    $email_msg .= $objectRef->display_name."\n";
    $send_an_email = true;
  } else if ($op == 'edit' && $objectName == 'Individual') {
    $email_sbj .= "- EDITED contact";
    $email_msg .= $objectRef->display_name."\n";
    $send_an_email = true;
  } else if ($op == 'delete' && $objectName == 'Individual') {
    $email_sbj .= "- DELETED contact";
    $email_msg .= $objectRef->display_name."\n";
    $email_msg .= 'Phone: '.$objectRef->phone."\n";
    $email_msg .= 'Email: '.$objectRef->email."\n";
    $send_an_email = true;
  }

  if ($send_an_email) {
    mail($email_to, $email_sbj, $email_msg, "From: ".$email_from);
  }

}//end FUNCTION
?>
Once the files are in the directory, you need to login to Drupal admin, go to Modules and enable our new module and click Save. Now go and edit a contact and you should get an email!

Of course I changed the e-mail addresses,  and I am monitoring the mail server on the webhost (centos in a VM).

Glad to hear. Let us know if we can help with anything else.

Well the good news is that I have done what I set out to do, namely using hooks to link a junior player with their parent,  set the relationship and allow the parent to edit the child,  however only  with Drupal7/civiCRM4.  Exactly the same code (apart from making the function joomla_civicrm_post{} pasted into customHooks.php does absolutely nothing on Joomla 1.6/CiviCRM4

Whilst its not a disaster using Drupal,  it would be quite nice to get the hook to work in Joomla.

Hi,

Check the book, the syntax for a joomla hook is slightly different than for drupal.

http://en.flossmanuals.net/civicrm/ch067_hooks/