How to access the node/term field-values in a cleaner way?

seventh_sniper

7/5/24, 6:02 PM

My code is filled with methods like these to access field values:

\Drupal::entityTypeManager()->getStorage('node')->get('field_name')->getValue()[0]['value'];
\Drupal\taxonomy\Entity\Term::load($tid)->get('field_name')->getValue()[0]['value'];
\Drupal::routeMatch()->getParameter('node')->get('field_name')->getValue()[0]['value'];
\Drupal::routeMatch()->getParameter('node')->get('field_entity')->getValue()[0]['target_id'];
\Drupal::routeMatch()->getParameter('node')->get('field_link')->getValue()[0]['title'];

And in twig templates:

content.field_name[0]['#context']['value']
item.entity.field_tech_spec_name.0.value
item.entity.field_image_link.0.url

Surely there has to be a more correct and aesthetic way to get these, which I am missing. Sorry for such a basic question.

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Hudri

7/5/24, 6:56 PM

You can use magic getter methods like $entity->field_name->database_column to get the first value of a field:

$node->field_name->value;
$node->field_entity->target_id;
$node->field_link->title;

etc

This will get the first value of that field (and will not work with multi cardinality fields). If that is "cleaner"... there are people who claim magic getters are plain evil. A more practical downside is that your IDE's Intellisense/autocompletion will not work with magic getters.

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