You could just forgo the form helper and make the form yourself I guess. The IDs used to send stuff to $this->data are pretty self explanitory: id="data[Model][field]" -- Baz L Web Development 2.0: Web Design, CakePHP, Javascript http://www.WebDevelopment2.com/
On Nov 12, 2007 2:34 PM, Samuel DeVore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 11/12/07, MikeK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > 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. > > > > In the same vein (not to be disrespectful) but the form helpers help > you make forms. :) now if you are picky about how you want your forms > to look you probably won't want to use them. But I think that goes > with all helpers. In the old HtmlHelper did all the stuff and > formsHelper was a waste of bits. I used the html helper as a kind of > base class and built on it for MyHtmlHelper and I will probably do > the same thing as I get more picky about the output in the "brave new > world" of 1.2 (I'm a bit of an engineer so it is possible that might > never happen, I'm more concerned about the pig then the lipstick ;) > > But I have to say that the best way to try to get a change implemented > is tickets with patches. In my way of looking at it the thing that I > will probably want to override the most is the wrapper function that > kind of makes it all look so clean in the code and so pretty in the > result, at least when my css/designer god (his name is Lance and you > can't have him) is done with it. > > I look at the helpers like I do the scaffold and bake results. Great > place to start but probably going to need some tuning before > production. > > Sam D > -- > (the old fart) the advice is free, the lack of crankiness will cost you > > - its a fine line between a real question and an idiot > > http://blog.samdevore.com/archives/2007/03/05/when-open-source-bugs-me/ > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cake PHP" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
