Question

I have following code:

<?php 

     $select_options = array();
     foreach($delivery_options as $option)
     {
        $select_options[$option->getDeviceId()] = $option->getDeviceName();
        echo $select_options[$option->getDeviceId()]; 
     }

     echo $this->Form->input('default_device', array( 
        'type' => 'select', 
        'options' => $select_options, 
        'value' => $default_device,
        'label' => '', 
    ));


?>

In foreach loop every echo returns this:
abc'abc
In html source code it looks like this abc'abc

and then in select input: abc'abc
In html source code: abc'abc

It means that & char from abc'abc was converted to it’s html encoding – &amp – but how did it happen?

I also tried htmlentities() and htmlspecialchars() but this still doesnt help…

Answer 1

The select input type allows for a special $option attribute called
‘escape’ which accepts a bool and determines whether to HTML entity
encode the contents of the select options. Defaults to true.

Try setting it to false.

echo $this->Form->input('default_device', array( 
        'type' => 'select', 
        'options' => $select_options,
        'escape' => false, // like so
        'value' => $default_device,
        'label' => '', 
));