This is drop-in replacement for textarea form element. It provides tokens below form element. Text is automatically inserted into textarea by clicking one of tokens.

The preferred way to install this extension is through composer.

Either run

php composer.phar require --prefer-dist mmedojevicbg/yii2-text-area-tokens "dev-master"

or add

"mmedojevicbg/yii2-text-area-tokens": "dev-master"

to the require section of your composer.json file.

echo TextAreaTokens::widget(['model' => $model,
                             'attribute' => 'textfield1',
                             'tokens' => ['first_name', 'last_name', 'phone_number'],
                             'options' => ['rows' => 8, 'cols' => 100]])