Support for "Entity Reference Autocomplete" Module

First, there is no check for the existence of the Entity Reference Autocomplete module, so those who don't use that would encounter a failure with this.

Second, the usual response to stuff like this is "We do not put in module-specific support; modules should largely be agnostic about other modules."

I don't really understand the problem to be solved here. Can they not just do a format_username()?

Thanks. I would like some other eyes on this.

Just installed the above patch on one of our sites that uses both the realname module and the entityreference_autocomplete and I can confirm that the above patch works like a charm.

I have not worked your patch.
When I select a widget "Autocomplete" to refer to the user - everything is OK, the search is carried out on the actual user name. However, when choosing under the same conditions widget "Autocomplete style tags", the search is carried out exclusively by login and user id.

Autocomplete:

Autocomplete style tags:

Hi,

I am getting this error when using this patch with an authenticated user:

Recoverable fatal error: Method DatabaseCondition::__toString() must return a string value in realname_query_era_query_alter() (line 454

Any ideas?

It works great with the user number 1 which I love

Hi again,

I figured out the problem, which was to add an is_string check:

foreach (element_children($where) as $key) {      
  if (is_string($where[$key]['field']) && $where[$key]['field'] == 'users.' . $label_column) {
      unset($where[$key]);
  }    
}

I hope that helps someone.

Thanks!

I agree with @Derimagia on comment #5, where it is good to have support of other module. I have update the path as per suggestion in comment #12.