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Resources
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Matthew Grasmick - grasmash
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Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu
- Brief description:
- Have you ever wanted to have one or more fallbacks within your Drupal tokens? There’s a module for that.
- Module name/project name:
- Brief history
- How old: created in May 2018 by Daniel Beeke (danielbeeke) of the Netherlands
- Versions available: 2.3.0
- Maintainership
- Actively maintained, current release appx 2 mo old
- Security coverage
- Test coverage
- Number of open issues: 8 open issues, 3 of which are bugs against the current branch
- Usage stats:
- Module features and usage
- After installing this module, your tokens can contain pipe-separated values, including a quote-enclosed literal string, and the token will return the first token or string that is not empty.
- This allows your tokens to have fallback values. For example you could have a token grab an event’s start date, or show “TBD” if the field is empty.
- The project page doesn’t explicitly say that a single token can have more than two token reference or string values, but it seems implied. If true, that would mean you could define a token that would grab from one field, look in a different field if the first one is empty, and return a string if neither field has a value.
- Because Token OR uses pipe characters to delineate between values, the module currently doesn’t support pipe characters within string values. This is one of the open issues, but there is a patch available.
- Previous guest host Josh Mitchell mentioned that he had never heard of this module until he noticed it is in the codebase for Drupal CMS, so I thought it would be ideal to talk about on this show, as an example of some lesser-known best practices that you’ll get out of the box when you start building sites on Drupal CMS.