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Tokens available in Drupal core

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19 April 2025

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The following tokens are available in Drupal core.

Comment

Token Token name Description 
[comment:cid]
 Comment ID The unique ID of the comment. 
[comment:hostname]
 IP Address The IP address of the computer the comment was posted from. 
[comment:mail]
 Email address The email address left by the comment author. 
[comment:homepage]
 Home page The home page URL left by the comment author. 
[comment:title]
 Title The title of the comment. 
[comment:body]
 Content The formatted content of the comment itself. 
[comment:langcode]
 Language code The language code of the language the comment is written in. 
[comment:url]
 URL The URL of the comment. 
[comment:edit-url]
 Edit URL The URL of the comment's edit page. 
[comment:created]
 Date created The date the comment was posted. 
[comment:changed]
 Date changed The date the comment was most recently updated. 
[comment:parent]
 Parent The comment's parent, if comment threading is active. 
[comment:entity]
 Entity The entity the comment was posted to. 
[comment:author]
 Author The author name of the comment.

Chainable

Token Token name Description 
[comment:entity:?]
 Entity The entity the comment was posted to, treated as whatever kind of entity the token is, such as Node. 
[comment:created:?]
 Date created The date the comment was posted, treated as a Date token. 
[comment:changed:?]
 Date changed The date the comment was most recently updated, treated as a Date token. 
[comment:parent:?]
 Parent The comment's parent, treated as a Comment token. 
[comment:author:?]
 Author The author of the comment, treated as a User token.

File

Token Token name Description 
[file:fid]
 File ID The unique ID of the uploaded file. 
[file:name]
 File name The name of the file on disk. 
[file:path]
 Path The location of the file relative to Drupal root. 
[file:mime]
 MIME type The MIME type of the file. 
[file:size]
 File size The size of the file. 
[file:url]
 URL The web-accessible URL for the file. 
[file:created]
Created The date the file created. 
[file:changed]
 Changed The date the file was most recently changed. 
[file:owner]
 Owner The user who originally uploaded the file.

Chainable

Token Token name Description 
[file:created:?]
 Created The date the file , treated as a Date token. 
[file:changed:?]
 Changed The date the file was most recently changed, treated as a Date token. 
[file:owner:?]
 Owner The user who originally uploaded the file, treated as a User token.

Node

Token Token name Description 
[node:nid]
 Content ID The unique ID of the content item, or "node". 
[node:vid]
 Revision ID The unique ID of the node's latest revision. 
[node:type]
 Content type The node's type as a machine name. 
[node:type-name]
 Content type name The human-readable name of the node type. 
[node:title]
 Title The node's title. 
[node:body]
 Body The main body text of the node. 
[node:summary]
 Summary The summary of the node's main body text. 
[node:langcode]
 Language code The language code of the language the node is written in. 
[node:published_status]
 Published The publication status of the node ("Published" or "Unpublished"). 
[node:url]
 URL The URL of the node. 
[node:edit-url]
 Edit URL The URL of the node's edit page. 
[node:created]
 Date created The date the node was created. 
[node:changed]
 Date changed The date the node was most recently updated. 
[node:author]
 Author The display name for the node's author.

Chainable

Token Token name Description 
[node:author:?]
 Author The node's author, treated as a User token. 
[node:created:?]
 Date created The date the node was created, treated as a Date token. 
[node:changed:?]
 Date changed The date the node was most recently updated, treated as a Date token.

Requires Comment module

Token Token name Description 
[node:comment-count]
 Comment count The number of comments posted on an entity. 
[node:comment-count-new]
 New comment count The number of comments posted on an entity since the reader last viewed it.

Requires Statistics module

Token Token name Description 
[node:total-count]
 Total views count The number of times this node has been viewed. 
[node:day-count]
 Last day views count The number of times this node has been viewed in the last day. 
[node:last-view]
 Last viewed time The last time this node was viewed. Can be chained as a Date module. If node has never been viewed, will return "never".

Site

Token Token name Description 
[site:name]
 Name The name of the site. 
[site:slogan]
 Slogan The slogan of the site. 
[site:mail]
 Email The administrative email address for the site. 
[site:base-url]
 Base URL The base URL of the site. eg. https://mysite.example.org 
[site:base-path]
 Base path The base path of the site.
Will be blank if running Drupal directly off the domain.
If Drupal is running at a specific path, that path will be returned.		 
[site:url]
 URL The URL of the site's front page with the language prefix, if it exists. 
[site:url-brief]
 URL (brief) The URL of the site's front page without the protocol. 
[site:login-url]
 Login page The URL of the site's login page.

Date

Token Token name Description 
[date:short]
 Short format The current date in 'short' format. eg. 04/19/2025 - 14:13 
[date:medium]
 Medium format The current date in 'medium' format. eg. Sat, 04/19/2025 - 14:13 
[date:long]
 Long format The current date in 'long' format. eg. Saturday, April 19, 2025 - 14:13 
[date:custom:?]
 Custom format The current date in a custom format. See the PHP documentation for details.
For example, [date:custom:Y-m-d] prints a date formatted like 2025-04-19.		 
[date:since]
 Time-since The current date in 'time-since' format. eg. 6 minutes 
[date:raw]
 Raw timestamp The current date in UNIX timestamp format eg. 1745071981

Taxonomy term

Token Token name Description 
[term:tid]
 Term ID The unique ID of the taxonomy term. 
[term:name]
 Name The name of the taxonomy term. 
[term:description]
 Description The optional description of the taxonomy term. 
[term:node-count]
 Node count The number of nodes tagged with the taxonomy term. 
[term:url]
 URL The URL of the taxonomy term. 
[term:vocabulary]
 Vocabulary The vocabulary the taxonomy term belongs to. 
[term:parent]
 Parent term The parent term of the taxonomy term, if one exists. 
[term:changed]
 Date changed The date the taxonomy was most recently updated.

Chainable

Token Token name Description 
[term:vocabulary:?]
 Vocabulary The vocabulary the taxonomy term belongs to, treated as a Vocabulary token. 
[term:parent:?]
 Parent term The parent term of the taxonomy term, treated as a Taxonomy Term token. 
[term:changed:?]
 Date changed The date the taxonomy was most recently updated, treated as a Date token.

Vocabulary

Token Token name Description 
[vocabulary:vid]
 Vocabulary ID The unique ID of the taxonomy vocabulary. 
[vocabulary:name]
 Name The name of the taxonomy vocabulary. 
[vocabulary:description]
 Description The optional description of the taxonomy vocabulary. 
[vocabulary:node-count]
 Node count The number of nodes tagged with terms belonging to the taxonomy vocabulary. 
[vocabulary:term-count]
 Term count The number of terms belonging to the taxonomy vocabulary.

User

Token Token name Description 
[user:uid]
 User ID The unique ID of the user account. 
[user:account-name]
 Account Name The login name of the user account. 
[user:display-name]
 Display Name The display name of the user account. 
[user:name]
 User Name Deprecated: Use account-name or display-name instead. 
[user:mail]
 Email The email address of the user account. 
[user:url]
 URL The URL of the account profile page. 
[user:edit-url]
 Edit URL The URL of the account edit page. 
[user:last-login]
 Last login The date the user last logged in to the site. 
[user:created]
 Created The date the user account was created.

Chainable

Token Token name Description 
[user:last-login:?]
 Last login The date the user last logged in to the site, treated as a Date token. 
[user:created:?]
 Created The date the user account was created, treated as a Date token.

Current user

The Current user tokens are identical to the User tokens, but they relate to the currently logged-in user and are prefixed with current-user.

eg. [current-user:uid], [current-user:display-name]

View

Token Token name Description 
[view:label]
 Label The label of the view. 
[view:description]
 Description The description of the view. 
[view:id]
 ID The machine-readable ID of the view. 
[view:title]
 Title The title of current display of the view. 
[view:url]
 URL The URL of the view. 
[view:base-table]
 Base table The base table used for this view. 
[view:base-field]
 Base field The base field used for this view. 
[view:total-rows]
 Total rows The total amount of results returned from the view.
The current display will be used.		 
[view:items-per-page]
 Items per page The number of items per page. 
[view:current-page]
 Current page The current page of results the view is on. 
[view:page-count]
 Page count The total page count.

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