Custom text output for entity reference fields

Question

In my content type I have an entity reference field. With this field editors can create internal links effordlessly with the autocomplete function.

What I want to achieve is that editors can now customize the text to output the referenced node. E.g. The editor creates a reference to a node and in a different field creates the "title" of the reference, she has just created. Thus references can have custom display titles.

I have tried the token formatters module (http://drupal.org/project/token_formatters) but to no avail.

In my particular case I have a field reference_text and have set the format of my entity reference field to "Tokenized text". In the "Text to output" field I have tried the following: 1) [node:reference_text] 2) [current-page:reference_text]

With 1) an empty field is displayed. With 2) I get an error message: Text output uses the following invalid tokes: [current-page:reference_text]

Not sure what else to try. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Big thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Two different options here (there are probably more!):

1. Use the linkit module in combination with wysiwyg and, say, the tinyMCE editor. This allows users to insert node reference links into wysiwyg text areas.

2. a. Create a textfield for the link text in addition to the entity reference field.

   b. In the template file for the content type (node--CONTENT_TYPE.tpl.php), output the links manually, something like:

   $path = 'node/' . $node->YOUR_ENTITY_REF_FIELD['und'][0]['target_id'];

   $link_text = $node->YOUR_LINK_TEXT_FIELD['und'][0]['value'];
   
   print l($link_text, $path);