CakePHP 1.2: $html->link with html or image.

  • Posted by max
  • 2 April 2007

In CakePHP 1.1 if you need to display an image or piece of HTML with a link to an action, you need to instruct cake NOT to escape the contents of the “Title” attribute with the last false statement like this:

e(
$html->link( 
	$html->image("add.gif"), 
	array('action' => 'add'), 
	array(), 
	null, 
	false ));

In CakePHP 1.2 you could rewrite this to:

e(
$html->link( 
	$html->image("add.gif"), 
	array('action' => 'add'), 
	array('escape' => false)));

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Comment Number:
1
Written by:
Bill
Posted on:
20 December 2007 at 9:12 pm

great tip, thank you.

Comment Number:
2
Written by:
Eddie
Posted on:
16 May 2008 at 5:48 pm

The image is properly displayed, but not inside the link!

echo $html->link(
$html->image(”gl.banner.png”),
‘/info’,
array(),
null,
false );

When I look at the actual html output though, you’ll see ;
<img src=”/img/gl.banner.png” /><a href=”/index.php?/info” ></a>

Any Advice?

Comment Number:
3
Written by:
Eddie
Posted on:
16 May 2008 at 5:51 pm

Follow up!

Be sure that in your core.php cofiguration to check the following line;

define(’AUTO_OUTPUT’, false);

must be false in order for this to work.

Comment Number:
4
Written by:
Sir P
Posted on:
23 August 2008 at 9:22 pm

top entry cheers work for me first time… why this isnt in the cake docs who knows :D