Ths is not meant to be disrespectful in anyway -- I love cake and it
has been a productivity boon, and I respect all that contribute to it.
However as I continue to develop cake code I have found myself
wondering why I am using the form helpers at all. It has been moving
through various CSS templates that has brought me to this point.
I find myself spending lots of time reading form helper code to figure
out what it wants, and looking at emitted code to figure out what it
did. When I could have just coded the html myself with far less
trouble. Furthermore it's not particularly more readable code as a
result of using helpers. (the only thing that I hate more is messing
with CSS).
Half the time I am writing code to make the helpers NOT emit a div
where I don't want one. Other times it is to specify css classes where
necessary in html anchors to go with a css style -- or to redefine the
emitted div for a label to be what I need to to be. Generally I'm of
the opinion that these helpers shouldn't emit ANY divs -- it's very
uncakelike to force a view/css structureon a developer -- seems to me
they should be completely independent.
Is it me or is there truly diminishing returns here? For example:
<?php echo $form->input('boat', array('error' => 'Boat is required',
'div' => '', 'class' => 'field', 'label' => array('class' => 'left',
'text' => 'Boat:')));?>
<?php echo $form->input('favorite lure', array('div' => '', 'class' =>
'field', 'label' => array('class' => 'left', 'text' => 'Favorite
Lure:')));?>
<?php echo $form->submit('Update', array('div' => false, 'class' =>
'button', 'id' => 'submit'));?>
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