Question

I am working on a cakePHP project and I need to create a button using PHP that will delete an entry in a database, but I want to display the twitter bootstrap trashcan icon on said button.

The code to include the icon from twitter bootstrap is;

<i class="icon-trash"></i>

And the PHP code I need it to work in is;

<?php echo $this->Form->postLink(__('Delete'), 
    array(
        'action' => 'delete', 
        $skill['Skill']['SkillID']),
        array(
              'class'=>'btn'),
              null, 
              __('Are you sure you want to delete # %s?', 
              $skill['Skill']['SkillID']
));?>

Does anyone know how to implement the html in this PHP code so I can replace the text ‘Delete’ with the icon?

Answer 1

echo $this->Form->postLink(
    '<i class="icon-trash"></i> '.__('Delete'), 
    array(
        'action' => 'delete', 
        $skill['Skill']['SkillID']
    ),
    array(
        'class'=>'btn',
        'escape' => false
    ),
    null, 
    __('Are you sure you want to delete # %s?', 
        $skill['Skill']['SkillID'] )
);

'escape' => false makes CakePHP display the HTML unescaped.

It might (depending on the CSS) also work if you just add the icon-trash class to the link.

echo $this->Form->postLink(__('Delete'), 
    array(
        'action' => 'delete', 
        $skill['Skill']['SkillID']),
        array(
              'class'=>'btn icon-trash'),
              null, 
              __('Are you sure you want to delete # %s?', 
              $skill['Skill']['SkillID']
));