Physical Fields

This module provides an API for storing and manipulating physical measurements. It also supports unit conversions.

Features

Supported measurement types:

Area
Length
Temperature
Volume
Weight

Provided field types:

Physical measurement: Stores a single measurement and its unit.
Physical dimensions: Stores the length/width/height measurements and their unit.

Other features:

Language-specific number input and formatting
Value objects with support for bcmath-based arithmetic.

Drupal 9 & 10 & 11

Installation

Physical should only be installed via Composer. The zip files on this page are provided for informative purposes only.

Drupal 9 or newer is required.

Example:

use Drupal\physical\Weight;
use Drupal\physical\WeightUnit;

$weight = new Weight('100', WeightUnit::KILOGRAM);
$other_weight = new Weight('120', WeightUnit::KILOGRAM);
// Add the two weights together then express them in pounds.
$new_weight = $weight->add($other_weight)->convert(WeightUnit::POUND);

Incompatibility notes

Physical 1.3+ is incompatible with Commerce versions prior to 2.34 (See https://www.drupal.org/project/physical/issues/3345698#comment-15019339).

Supporting organizations:

Centarro

Project information

Minimally maintained
Maintainers monitor issues, but fast responses are not guaranteed.
Maintenance fixes only
Considered feature-complete by its maintainers.
Project categories: E-commerce, Site structure
13,494 sites report using this module
Created by rszrama on 22 September 2011, updated 18 August 2025
Stable releases for this project are covered by the security advisory policy.
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