A little something about the Form Helper…

Just a quick pointer about the form helper usage…

If you don’t like the default output of $form->input();

[cc lang=”html”]
echo $form->input(‘SomeModel.some_field’);

Changing model’s table from the controller

For one reason, or another you might wish to change your Model’s table on the fly…

It would seem that it should be quite easy to do with:

‘required’=>true… the source of major confusion

In all the time I’ve been following cake on IRC (almost daily), it has become very clear that other than ACL and maybe Auth, ‘required’=>true in the model validation is the most confusing part of CakePHP for many people.

Make your CakePHP forms a lot more secure

Update: 11/06/2008
Tarique Sani pointed out that I had an extra line of code, which wasn’t necessary to make all this work (perhaps an old habit, but the post has been modified to reflect the change).
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Get yourself a new home (alternative to home.ctp)

I’m sure you know that to modify your application’s homepage, one needs to edit/create the home.ctp file in app/views/pages/home.ctp.
That, however, leaves you dealing with a more or less static page…