Question

For example :

 <?php

 ................

  //in my view
 echo $form->input('Model.field', array('label' => 'The label', 'id'=>'txtID'));
 $valueOfLabel = ??????? // how to get the label text which is 'The label'
 .................
  ?> 

i want to get the “The label” which is the label of the inputbox and store it to a php variable

How can i get it?
Is it possible?

Any help would be greatly appreciated
Thanks 😀

Answer 1

If you’re setting the label yourself as you’re showing in the question, then Pawel’s answer is correct. Save the value in a variable yourself.

If you’re interested in the auto-generated label for a field, this information is not saved anywhere (which is why you can’t “get the value”), it’s simply output. You could regenerate it using Inflector::humanize('fieldname'), which is what the FormHelper uses internally.

_{You could get the output using output buffering and parse it to extract the output value, but if you’re actually doing that, you’re insane! Go with Pawel’s answer! 😛}