Custom Formatters

The Custom Formatters module allows users to easily create custom Field Formatters without the need to write a custom module. Custom Formatters can then be exported as CTools Exportables, Features or Drupal API Field Formatters.

Features

• Pluggable editor/renderer engines:

  • Formatter presets (default)
    Create simple formatters from existing formatters with preset formatter settings.

  • HTML + Tokens (default)
    A HTML based editor with Token support.

  • PHP (default)
    A PHP based editor with support for multiple fields and multiple values.

  • Twig
    A Twig based editor provided by the Twig filter module.

• Supports for all fieldable entities, including but not limited to:

  • Drupal core - Comment, Node, Taxonomy term and User entities.
  • Field collection module - Field-collection item entity.
  • Media module - Media entity.

• Exportable as:

  • Drupal API formatter via:
    • Custom Formatters export interface.
  • CTools exportable via:
    • Custom Formatters export interface.
    • CTools Bulk Export module.
    • Features module.

• Live preview using real entities or Devel Generate.

• Integrates with:

  • Coder Review
    Review your Custom Formatter code for Drupal coding standards and more.

  • Contextual links (Drupal core)
    Adds a hover link for quick editing of Custom Formatters.

  • Display Suite
    Format Display Suite fields.

  • Entity tokens
    Leverages entity tokens for Field token support.

  • Features
    Adds dependent Custom Formatters (from Views or Content types) to Feature.

  • Form Builder
    Drag'n'Drop interface for builder Formatter Settings forms.

  • Insert
    Exposes Custom Formatters to the Insert module.

  • Libraries API and the EditArea javascript library
    Adds real-time syntax highlighting.

  • Token
    Adds the Token tree browser to the HTML + Tokens engine.

Required Modules

• Chaos tool suite

Recommended Modules

• Coder Review (via Coder)
• Devel Generate (via Devel)
• Entity tokens (via Entity API)
• Field tokens
• Form Builder
• Libraries API
• Token

Usage/Configuration

Read the manual at: drupal.org/node/2514412

EditArea - Real-time syntax highlighting

The EditArea javascript library adds real-time syntax highlighting, to install it follow these steps:

1. Download and install the Libraries API module.

2. Download the EditArea library and extract and move it into your libraries folder as 'editarea' (e.g., sites/all/libraries/editarea).

Makefile entries

For easy downloading of Custom Formatters and it's required/recommended modules and/or libraries, you can use the following entries in your makefile:

  projects[] = coder

  projects[] = ctools

  projects[] = custom_formatters

  projects[] = devel

  projects[] = entity

  projects[] = field_tokens

  projects[] = form_builder

  projects[] = libraries

  projects[] = options_element

  projects[] = token

  libraries[editarea][download][type] = get
  libraries[editarea][download][url] = http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/editarea/EditArea/EditArea%200.8.2/editarea_0_8_2.zip?r=&ts=1334742944&use_mirror=internode

Note: It is highly recommended to specify the version of your projects, the above format is only for the sake of simplicity.