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authorAngie Byron <webchick@24967.no-reply.drupal.org>2010-12-08 07:06:27 +0000
committerAngie Byron <webchick@24967.no-reply.drupal.org>2010-12-08 07:06:27 +0000
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#977346 by jhodgdon, joachim: Fixed More detailed docs for entity_label
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-rw-r--r--modules/system/system.api.php21
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/modules/system/system.api.php b/modules/system/system.api.php
index 4be4a7660..b9c8209cd 100644
--- a/modules/system/system.api.php
+++ b/modules/system/system.api.php
@@ -88,10 +88,15 @@ function hook_hook_info_alter(&$hooks) {
* uri elements of the entity, e.g. 'path' and 'options'. The actual entity
* uri can be constructed by passing these elements to url().
* - label callback: (optional) A function taking an entity as argument and
- * returning the label of the entity; e.g., $node->title or
- * $comment->subject. A callback should be specified when the label is the
- * result of complex logic. Otherwise, the 'label' property of the
- * 'entity keys' the property should be used.
+ * returning the label of the entity. The entity label is the main string
+ * associated with an entity; for example, the title of a node or the
+ * subject of a comment. If there is an entity object property that defines
+ * the label, use the 'label' element of the 'entity keys' return
+ * value component to provide this information (see below). If more complex
+ * logic is needed to determine the label of an entity, you can instead
+ * specify a callback function here, which will be called to determine the
+ * entity label. See also the entity_label() function, which implements this
+ * logic.
* - fieldable: Set to TRUE if you want your entity type to be fieldable.
* - translation: An associative array of modules registered as field
* translation handlers. Array keys are the module names, array values
@@ -112,11 +117,11 @@ function hook_hook_info_alter(&$hooks) {
* omitted if this entity type exposes a single bundle (all entities have
* the same collection of fields). The name of this single bundle will be
* the same as the entity type.
- * - label: The property name of the entity that contains the label. For
+ * - label: The name of the property that contains the entity label. For
* example, if the entity's label is located in $entity->subject, then
- * 'subect' should be specified here. In case complex logic is required to
- * build the label, a 'label callback' should be implemented instead. See
- * entity_label() for details.
+ * 'subject' should be specified here. If complex logic is required to
+ * build the label, a 'label callback' should be defined instead (see
+ * the 'label callback' section above for details).
* - bundle keys: An array describing how the Field API can extract the
* information it needs from the bundle objects for this type (e.g
* $vocabulary objects for terms; not applicable for nodes). This entry can