Why not use the form tempting system instead? The Form helper is very
flexible in the way that it allows you to create your html
On Tuesday, December 2, 2014 9:01:06 AM UTC+1, José Lorenzo wrote:
>
> If you use label() and checkbox() separately, you re responsible for
> passing the correct attributes to those 2 functions. For example, for
> label() you will have to provide the 'for' attribute and for checkbox() the
> 'id' attribute.
> When using the input() function, the label and the checkbox will be
> generated for you with a matching id for both tags
>
> On Tuesday, December 2, 2014 5:21:47 AM UTC+1, Joe Theuerkauf wrote:
>>
>> i'm a little confused about how labels & inputs are assigned for/id pairs
>> in FormHelper.
>>
>> Here's the code i have (it's inside a foreach of an entity collection):
>>
>> $attrId = 'Listing.ItemAttr.' . $attr->id;
>> echo
>> $this->Html->div('columns small-16 medium-8',
>> $this->Form->label($attrId, // [for] attribute
>> $this->Form->checkbox(
>> $attrId, // [name] attribute
>> [
>> 'id' => $attrId, // [id] attribute - if i skip this for
>> checkbox inputs, i don't get an [id] attribute.
>> // 'label' => $attr->name >> turns into <input type="checkbox"
>> label="Attribute Name">
>> // other checkbox attributes
>> ]
>> ) . $attr->name,
>> [
>> 'escape' => FALSE
>> ]
>> ) // end label
>> );
>>
>> The resulting HTML:
>>
>> <div class="columns small-16 medium-8">
>> <label for="listing-itemattr-3">
>> <input type="checkbox" id="Listing.ItemAttr.3" name="
>> Listing[ItemAttr][3]">Attribute Name
>> </label>
>> </div>
>>
>> The label passes the [for] attribute through FormHelper::_domId, which
>> i'd expect. But the [id] attribute doesn't appear to get the same
>> treatment. i changed the checkbox() call to input() and the same ID
>> string was assigned. It looks like an auto-generated ID is passed through
>> _domId, but that only gets into the attributes if 'id' isn't already set
>> in that array.
>>
>> i also discovered that in the checkbox() method, a 'label' key is turned
>> into an attribute of the input, not used to generate a wrapping <label>
>> element as with most other inputs. Peculiar. So i'm doing this manual
>> structure (which is fine, i also need to customize some other parts of the
>> HTML anyway).
>>
>> *Question 1*: In FormHelper::input(), shouldn't the ID attribute be
>> adjusted with _domId *after* the $options array is complete? Or is there
>> an issue in checkbox() that it's not outputting the generated ID to HTML?
>>
>> *Question 2*: Any suggestions how to get the wrapping label's [for] to
>> match the checkbox's [id] until one of the above is addressed?
>>
>> Thanks.
>> -joe t.
>>
>
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