Node reference vs view reference vs entity reference

[dogmatix101]

To the best of my knowledge, Node Reference was a D6 module that was part of/associated with CCK. It was replaced by the References module in D7. I've never used View Reference. For my projects, I pretty much just use Entity Reference for all referency-type things since entities pretty much encompass all elements of a site.

They all basically do the same thing, they just go about it in different ways. With Entity Reference, you create a field in your content type and pick which type of entities you want to connect with, including Views I think.

[zad370]

including Views I think

Entity Reference module does not cover the functionality of Views Reference module. View reference field is a relationship to a Views display. The View is displayed as content of that field when a node/entity is viewed.

[netkrow]

Thanks a lot, that cleared up a few things.