Articles tagged with "field widget"

Languages make everything so complicated! I just discovered the autocomplete bit on my reference fields wasn't working - until I tried searching by another language, and then the results gave me a surprise:

My homepage, originally in French, has had an English translation added, but whilst editing in English, I had to search with the French title in order for the page to come up... with the English title! Here's how to solve this...

My site uses Entity translation and the Title module (which I usually recommend as the best way of making your site translatable), and this...

This is part 2 in my series of articles about Drupal widgets, and specifically creating a custom field. I recommend reading Part 1: Field type first, if you have not done so already.

After creating the field type it is now time to create the field widget.

a) Create the file

The field widget must be located as follows:
/lib/Drupal//Plugin/field/widget/.php
N.B. The field widget name should be in CamelCase.

b) Add Contains, namespace and use

In the newly created field type file add a brief comment to explain what it consists of:

/**
 * @file
 *...