Node Reference URL Widget - Replacing the node form widget with a view.

When using the amazing Node Reference URL Widget (http://drupal.org/project/nodereference_url), I've often wanted to display a more helpful/attractive display of the node that is being referenced, instead of the sometimes unhelpful node title that is displayed by default on the node creation form. For instance, if I am adding a Song node that references an Artist node, I would rather show an actual picture of the artist and their name, instead of just the title of the artist node. Here's one way that you can do this, by embedding a custom view in place of the default text:

1. Create the view.
   • Items to display: 1
   • Add an argument of Node: NID.
     • Set Action to take if argument is not present: to "Display empty text".
2. Add the fields that you would like to display.
3. Finally, in your theme's template.php file, add the following code:

/**
* Implementation of hook_theme.
*
* Register custom theme functions.
*/
function YOURTHEMENAME_theme() {
  return array(
    // The form ID.
    'YOURCONTENTTYPE_node_form' => array(
      // Forms always take the form argument.
      'arguments' => array('form' => NULL),
    ),
    
  );
}

/**
* Theme override for node page form.
*
* The function is named themename_formid.
*/
function YOURTHEMENAME_YOURCONTENTTYPE_node_form($form) {
  // Replace the nodereference url widget field with a view to display the item that was referenced.
  if(!empty($form['YOURFIELDNAME'][0]['nid']['#value'])){
    $my_nodes = array($form['YOURFIELDNAME'][0]['nid']['#value']);
    $form['YOURFIELDNAME'][0]['nid']['#display_title'] = views_embed_view('YOURVIEWNAME', 'default', $my_nodes);
  }
  return drupal_render($form);
}