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Duc Anh
Duc Anh

Reputation: 581

How should I handle forms in CakePHP?

I'm studying CakePHP. I read a CakePHP book, and web tutorials, but I still don't get some basic things:

I see people always create a form in View with $form->create. Can I use an HTML form like normal, or must do exactly like people do?

When a form is created in login.ctp with this code:

echo $form->create('User', array('method' => 'POST', 'action' => 'login'));     
echo $form->input('email');
echo $form->input('password');
echo $form->input(array('type' => 'submit'));
echo $form->end('Login');

When I click the submit button, will the data be passed to the function login() in the Controller class?

Edited :

I tried this : 

<?php
$this->Form->create("Test");
$this->Form->input("stuId",array('class'=>'inputField', 'placeholder'=>'SVxxxxxxxx'));
$this->Form->input("stuName",array('class'=>'inputField', 'name'=>'stuName'));
$this->Form->end();
?>

But it show nothing ? what is the problem :(

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1739

Answers (3)

dhofstet
dhofstet

Reputation: 9964

But it show nothing ? what is the problem :(

You have to use echo as in your first code snippet:

echo $this->Form->create("Test");
echo ...

Upvotes: 3

Kishor Kundan
Kishor Kundan

Reputation: 3165

Yes, the parameters will be passed to login method.

I see $form being used in the form there, it appears you are using older version of cakephp (if $form has been instantiated with $this->Form then you are fine)

The FormHelper does lot of automagic for us and it also provides us means for added security.

I would reckon you to go with The Blog tutorial

Upvotes: 1

Steven
Steven

Reputation: 303

You can use HTML for anything you want, but you'd be losing a big advantage of the CakePHP framework. The Cake HTML and form helpers help to future-proof your code. You also get the benefit of Cake's implementation of best practices in web coding. I fully recommend using those helpers.

The form data is passed to $this->request->data.

Upvotes: 1

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