Question

I’m attempting to customize the error output on the CakePHP 2.0 form helper. Currently, the form renders error messages below the input and applies an ‘error’ class to the input’s label.

I have found that I can either disable error reporting altogether for an input, or output the error class and message.

I would like the error class to be applied to the label of the offending inputs WITHOUT any message below.

How do you turn off the error message outputting for a form, BUT still apply error classes to offending labels?

Answer 1

FormHelper::input() has a format option. It is a

format template for element order. Any element that is not in the array, will not be in the output.

Default input format order: array(‘before’, ‘label’, ‘between’, ‘input’, ‘after’, ‘error’)

You can pass the default format, leaving out the 'error':

echo $this->Form->input(
    'some_field',
     array('format' => array('before', 'label', 'between', 'input', 'after'))
);

That should produce the input markup without the error message.

If you want to apply this to multiple inputs in your form, you should keep it DRY:

$format = array('before', 'label', 'between', 'input', 'after');
echo $this->Form->input(
    'some_field',
     array('format' => $format)
);
echo $this->Form->input(
    'some_other_field',
     array('format' => $format)
);

It is also possible to set the default format for all inputs of a form by passing the format to FormHelper::create() as inputDefaults:

$this->Form->create(
    'MyModel',
    array(
        'inputDefaults' => array(
            'format' => array('before', 'label', 'between', 'input', 'after')
        )
    )
);