I'm setting up a user-registration-form in cakePHP, using inputDefaults
to match twitter bootstrap requirements for horizontal forms
echo $this->Form->create('User', array(
'class' => 'form-horizontal',
'role' => 'form',
'inputDefaults' => array(
'format' => array('before', 'label', 'between', 'input', 'error', 'after'),
'div' => array('class' => 'form-group'),
'label' => array('class' => 'col-sm-2 control-label'),
'between' => '<div class="col-sm-10">',
'after' => '</div>',
'error' => array('attributes' => array('wrap' => 'span', 'class' => 'help-inline')),
)));
Within, I'm using
echo $this->Form->input('username');
to display the form element.
I would like to have custom label, like this:
echo $this->Form->input('username', array('label' => 'Benutzername'));
Unfortunately this overrides my default settings. How can I use default settings and a custom label at once, without redefining all settings for all input elements?
I would do this
$mainLabelOptions = array('class' => 'col-sm-2 control-label');
echo $this->Form->create('User', array(
'class' => 'form-horizontal',
'role' => 'form',
'inputDefaults' => array(
'format' => array('before', 'label', 'between', 'input', 'error', 'after'),
'div' => array('class' => 'form-group'),
'label' => $mainLabelOptions,
'between' => '<div class="col-sm-10">',
'after' => '</div>',
'error' => array('attributes' => array('wrap' => 'span', 'class' => 'help-inline')),
)));
//then I would create a new label options array and have it merged to the main one
$myLabelOptions = array('text' => 'Benutzername');
echo $this->Form->input('username', array('label' => array_merge($mainLabelOptions, $myLabelOptions)));
You would be basically "overwriting" but still maintaining the default options.