Post publish only hook?

Is there any hook which is fired only when the post is “published” for the first time.

I dont want to execute my code when the post is “updated” or when its status is set to “not-published” and then “published” again.

EDIT:

add_action('draft_to_published','func_tion');

function func_tion($post){
    $post_id = $post->ID;   

    if ( !get_post_meta( $post_id, 'mycoderan', $single = true ) )
    // run code to manipulate data
    wp_enqueue_script('plugin_name',plugin_dir_url(__FILE__ ).'script.js');
    $params = array() // set parameters
    wp_localize_script('plugin_name', 'params', $params );
    update_post_meta( $post_id, 'mycoderan', true );
}

Answers:

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Method 1

The {$old_status}_to_{$new_status} and {$new_status}_{$post->post_type} hooks tend to generally solve the problem.

To avoid running the code in case post status is changed to draft then published again (after already being published), implement a simple flag using the post_meta functionality.

Note: the updated hook should be ‘draft_to_publish’ instead of ‘draft_to_published’ however, the code below is not modified and should be if you plan to use in WP 3.5

add_action( 'draft_to_published', 'wpse47566_do_once_on_publish' );
function wpse47566_do_once_on_publish( $post ) {
    // check post type if necessary
    if ( $post->post_type != 'a_specific_type' ) return;

    $post_id = $post->ID;

    if ( !get_post_meta( $post_id, 'mycoderan', $single = true ) ) {
        // ...run code once
        update_post_meta( $post_id, 'mycoderan', true );
    }
}

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