Tokens

Welcome

The Token module for Drupal 4.7 and 5 exposes simple text substitution tokens like [title] and [user-name], for use in path generation, mass mailings, and many other situation where admins want to set up text replacement patterns without using PHP snippets. Other modules can expose their own domain-specific replacement tokens (like information about a purchase, or an organic group that a user is a member of) and use Token's centralized replace() function to replace token occurrences in any piece of text.

If you are curious how you might use tokens or who is using it, consider this list of modules that use token

If you want to help get Token into Core then there's the issue. Please don't just subscribe to the issue or you will lose karma points in the eyes of some of Drupal's most respected community members.

Token contrib module issues

Token replacement from specific vocabularies?

Posted by laken on May 27, 2008 at 10:36pm

I've got a content type with a Name field, and 2 taxonomy vocabularies applied, one for "person type" and one for "issue type". I'm using auto node titles module, and I want to to format the titles like this

[name], [person type], on [issue type]

e.g.

Andy Laken, Volunteer, on Governance

But in the replacement pattern list, I find only [term] which is the "Name of top taxonomy term" (not sure what that means.) My question - is there any way to get a replacement pattern to grab the name of the term for a specific vocabularies, when more than one vocab applies to a node?

Token and CCK nodereference

Posted by Hugo Wetterberg on April 29, 2008 at 7:02am

Hi All,
Thanks for a great module. I'm trying to make pathauto construct hierarchical urls using cck-nodereference fields for the hierarchical relationships. And I have some questions about the tokens that are created for nodereference fields. As far as I can see the only usable token is [fieldname]-nid. Is this correct, or are the *-title and *-link tokens populated in certain circumstances?

Replacement Patterns Not Available

Posted by gregrenner on April 16, 2008 at 3:49pm

Greetings,
I'm new to this group and to the Token module, so forgive my ignorance with this question. Its possible I missed something basic. I am unable to see and replacement patterns anywhere on my site where they should be listed. For example the Auto Nodetitles module provides a fieldset which is supposed to list the available replacement patterns, but there isn't anything in the fieldset (attachment1). Its also not replacing my [field_event-raw] with anything. I have the same issue in the Workflow-ng pages, nothing shows up (attachment2), but my tokens ARE being replaced.

5.x-1.11 Pre-release Bug Tracking Wiki

Posted by greggles on April 15, 2008 at 9:27pm
Last updated by greggles on Tue, 2008-04-15 21:27

Howdy folks,

I think (and karen thinks) that we've hit the time for a 5.x-1.11 release. Are there any major bugs we should fix prior to that release? Can anyone else confirm that the 5.x-1.x-dev release is working well for them (I use it on all my sites, but I don't exercise all of its features...) Post links to the issues in this wiki or as comments on this page. If you think it's ready to go, posting a message saying that would help as well! Thanks!

format_date? which timezone to use?

Posted by greggles on January 5, 2008 at 10:37am

There's an issue with some of the dates in tokens that they don't get set to the right values.

Of course, the question is what's the "right" value?

I'm writing here to ask if you'd rather get the server time or the default site time or the user's timezone.

The first person who asks for "configurable by the token admin" will get stabbed with a "work on token2.x where attributes are possible"-spoon. (yes, a spoon, it will hurt more).

Arbitary tokens

Posted by jredding on December 1, 2007 at 6:39pm

In the last two days I whipped up a very quick module that allows you to create arbitrary tokens (i.e. /node/add/token) for use with the token modules. This was primarily created for use with the tokenize module so that through the UI a user could create tokens and select which fields could use those tokens.

Token and the Rep[lacement]Tags module

Posted by profix898 on November 21, 2007 at 11:50am

I'm author and maintainer of the Rep[lacement]Tags module (http://drupal.org/project/reptag). As mentioned and explained before the reptag module is a regexp-based, node-centric, bigger brother/sister of the Token module. The idea behind both modules is quite similar and even the API is similar on some points. For Drupal 6 I'd really love to see the modules complement each other (or even merge). To achieve that (at least for most of the features) only a few changes to Token and some more to Reptag ;) would be required.

Modules that Use Token Module

Posted by greggles on October 28, 2007 at 3:23pm
Last updated by chist on Mon, 2026-02-02 08:56

Here is a list of some of the modules that use token. If you know of another, please add it.

Some of these modules provide tokens, some just use the token_replace mechanism. But if you are looking for something that will integrate nicely with (for example) Auto Node Title, Page Title, or Pathauto (the consumers of tokens) then you should consider these modules which will probably expose their inner data as tokens to other modules.

Module	5.x	6.x	7.x	8.x	9.x	10.x

Another token enhancement proposal

Posted by cwgordon7 on October 21, 2007 at 1:13am

Token should probably provide an easy way for modules to create tokens based on already existing tokens. Let me explain what I mean. For a node, I should be able to pass in 'author-' as a prefix, 'user' as the type, and the node's author as the object. Token would then get all the values for 'user' with the object $user, and would return them as the tokens [author-usertokenpropertyhere].

Token enhancement proposal

Posted by fago on August 21, 2007 at 8:48am

Token is great, however there are still some problems that need to be solved. Here is a proposal, which tries to do so.

Problems I noticed are:

missing handling of multiple values
no way to get tokens of a certain node type and no more
no way to get token help for only raw values or formatted ones - which might lead to XSS created by unexperienced users
performance: getting all token values for a node takes about 10ms!

I ran over the performance issue while developing workflow-ng. I think 10ms just for replacing a token is far less than ideal. I noticed that user tokens are working quite fast, so I assume that getting and caching all token values takes that long. So I propose to do the replacing in two steps, first off it is determined for each token, if it has been used.Then on the second step, the value for each used token is determined and replaced.
So token needs to get only the values for really use tokens - this should work fast!

Unfortunately, this and the improved formatter handling requires API changes. So consider this as a proposal for token 2.x.

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