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public function User::getDisplayName in Drupal 8

Same name and namespace in other branches
  1. 9 core/modules/user/src/Entity/User.php \Drupal\user\Entity\User::getDisplayName()

Returns the display name of this account.

By default, the passed-in object's 'name' property is used if it exists, or else, the site-defined value for the 'anonymous' variable. However, a module may override this by implementing hook_user_format_name_alter(&$name, $account).

Return value

string|\Drupal\Component\Render\MarkupInterface Either a string that will be auto-escaped on output or a MarkupInterface object that is already HTML escaped. Either is safe to be printed within HTML fragments.

Overrides AccountInterface::getDisplayName

See also

hook_user_format_name_alter()

1 call to User::getDisplayName()
User::label in core/modules/user/src/Entity/User.php
Gets the label of the entity.

File

core/modules/user/src/Entity/User.php, line 390

Class

User
Defines the user entity class.

Namespace

Drupal\user\Entity

Code

public function getDisplayName() {
  $name = $this
    ->getAccountName() ?: \Drupal::config('user.settings')
    ->get('anonymous');
  \Drupal::moduleHandler()
    ->alter('user_format_name', $name, $this);
  return $name;
}