Textcomplete

Textcomplete

Provides the user with text autocomplete functionality within textareas. By default it comes shipped with a basic html autocomplete and emoji (emoticons) autocomplete.

However the true power of textcomplete is when you install entityreference and advanced entity tokens. It will allow you to perform autocomplete searches on entities within your Drupal install.

For example if you want to link to users within comments, you can define a view or basic search which will then allow you to perform an autocomplete search within a textarea. When a user is selected it will use advanced entity tokens and replace it with a link to the user profile.

Demo

Try out our demo and tell us what you think.

Dependencies

This module is dependent on Jquery Update and Libraries. You must have at least jQuery version 1.7 installed.

It also requires a 3rd party javascript plugin which can be found here: https://github.com/yuku-t/jquery-textcomplete

Installation

1. Make sure you have installed textcomplete, jquery_update libraries.
2. Download the textcomplete plugin from the following location: https://github.com/yuku-t/jquery-textcomplete or download via drush using the command drush textcomplete-plugin
3. Extract the plugin to your libraries directory and rename the folder textcomplete.
4. Make sure you are using jquery version 1.7.
5. Navigate to manage fields inside a content type.
6. Create or edit a new or existing textfield, change the settings inside the fieldset textcomplete to suit your needs.
7. To replace the emoji tokens you will need to enable the filter inside admin/config/content/formats

If you wish to use this as an autocomplete with entityreference please follow these instructions.

1. Enable entityreference, aet and token_filter
2. Navigate to admin/config/content/formats and enable the replace tokens filter.
3. Navigate to manage fields inside a content type.
4. Create or edit a new or existing textfield and enable the entityreferece status inside the textcomplete settings fieldset.

Similar modules

• Linkit - https://www.drupal.org/project/linkit

Issues

Currently their is an issue with spaces in the regular expression for matching the word you are currently on. At the moment you can use underscores instead of spaces.

Coming features

• Fix regex expression to accommodate spaces.
• Allow integration with CKeditor, currently the plugin does not support integration with more complex contenteditables. I am working with the maintainer of the plugin to try and rectify this.