Question

I’d like to know if this code…

echo $this->Html->link(
    "<h3>test</h3>".$this->Html->image("image.jpg")."<p>Some text</p>",
    "/link",
    array('escape' => false)
);

…is the best way to generate this HTML in CakePHP…

<a href="/path/to/link">
    <h3>test</h3>
    <img alt="" src="/path/to/image.jpg">
    <p>Some text</p>
</a>

Or, is there a more “correct” way of doing this? I want the and

all to be within the tag so that I can set the to display: block; in CSS and have the whole area clickable with a hover effect.

Something tells me that having HTML echoed like this isn’t the right way to go about it, but I can’t see an alternative if I’m going to use the HTML Helper. Is there one?

Answer 1

Just use the URL method of the HTML helper instead of the link one,do the rest as static HTML, may as well keep the amount of PHP down to a minimum as far as I see it.

<a href="<?php echo $this->Html->url($params); ?>">
    <h3>test</h3>
    <?php echo $this->Html->image($params); ?>
    <p>Some text</p>
</a>

This would be the most efficient way of doing this task. But maybe you should think about your markup structure and what you want to achieve…