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João Gonçalves
João Gonçalves

Reputation: 4002

Cakephp textarea

I am using CakePHP 2.2.3. I have a contact form with a model without a table but with validation rules.

My problem is, how to tell CakePHP that the input type is textarea ? I could use $this->Form->textarea() but I've noticed that when I use it, it doesn't create the proper HTML to report validation errors back. If I use $this->Form->input() it just creates a normal input type text.

It should create something like:

<div class="input email required"><input name="data[Quote][email]" required="1" type="email" id="QuoteEmail"/></div>

but instead it creates something like:

<textarea name="data[Quote][company_description]" id="QuoteCompanyDescription"></textarea>

notice the absence of <div class="input email required"></div>, which I assume is the DOM element CakePHP uses to inject the validation error.

I would like to know what's the best way to achieve this.

Upvotes: 6

Views: 26253

Answers (3)

Kuldeep Tiwari
Kuldeep Tiwari

Reputation: 11

<?= $this->Form->input('comment', ['type' => 'textarea', 'label' => false, 'placeholder'=> 'Comment here', 'escape' => false,'class' =>'comment', 'rows' => '10', 'cols' => '20']); ?>

Creates a textarea with specified number of rows and cols, not just a standard textarea.

Upvotes: 0

scx
scx

Reputation: 2789

Try following which also include class that you specified as an option

echo $this->Form->input('company_description', array('type' => 'textarea', 'escape' => false,'class' =>'input email required');

http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/core-libraries/helpers/form.html#automagic-form-elements

Upvotes: 3

472084
472084

Reputation: 17885

I tend to use input() for all types and then specify in the options array..

$this->Form->input('company_description', array('type' => 'textarea'));

http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/core-libraries/helpers/form.html

Upvotes: 32

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