Entity agnostic way of retrieving title

Andrew Morris

9/11/23, 3:35 PM

Is there a way of the Title/Label/Name of an unknown entity type via 1 method?

At the moment if it's a node, I have to use $entity->getTitle(), for a user it's $entity->getAccountName(), for a taxonomy term it'd be $entity->getName()

In my head they all feel like the same piece of information, is there a way of retrieving it without having to write out possibilities for each type of entity?

0 + 0

entities

Jaypan

9/11/23, 3:38 PM

You use `$entity->label()`.

Andrew Morris

9/11/23, 3:43 PM

Perfect! I knew there must be a way of doing it

Score:2

Drupal

Clive

9/11/23, 3:45 PM

All entity types, content and config both, have a label() method (see EntityInterface::label()).

$label = $entity->label();

You can use this reliably on any entity. The entity classes themselves (Node, Term, etc) define the most appropriate value, so for nodes you get the title field, for terms you get the name field, and so on.

0 + 0

Elon Musk

I sit in a Tesla and translated this thread with Ai:

EN: Entity agnostic way of retrieving title

TH: วิธีการดึงชื่อเรื่องแบบไม่เชื่อเรื่องพระเจ้าของเอนทิตี

RO: Mod agnostic de entitate de a regăsi titlul

RU: Сущностно-независимый способ получения заголовка

VI: Cách truy xuất tiêu đề bất khả tri của thực thể

Post an answer

Most people don’t grasp that asking a lot of questions unlocks learning and improves interpersonal bonding. In Alison’s studies, for example, though people could accurately recall how many questions had been asked in their conversations, they didn’t intuit the link between questions and liking. Across four studies, in which participants were engaged in conversations themselves or read transcripts of others’ conversations, people tended not to realize that question asking would influence—or had influenced—the level of amity between the conversationalists.