€urrency in form fields

Need Help
1

Not a matter of life and death, but it would be nice to customize the field form with a currency character ($,€ etc.). I couldn’t find the option to edit a specific form’s layout, my best guess was trying via the setTemplate option:

$this->Form->setTemplates([
    'inputContainer' => '<div class="input {{help}}{{type}}{{required}}">
        {{help}} {{content}} <span class="help">{{help}}</span></div>'
]);

Form->control('X', [.., 'templateVars'=>['help'=>'€'] ]

This prints the € sign everywhere but inside or directly in front of the form :slight_smile:

Simply without CakePHP specific commands doesn’t work either:
echo ('€ ' .$this->Form->control()'; to achieve http://jsfiddle.net/uzbjve2u/

Then the question is: how to access forms layout in order to do the above, or through CSS?

2

How about just breaking the form rendering apart into the individual controls - https://book.cakephp.org/4/en/views/helpers/form.html

then just build your HTML around the controls as required.

3

I am not sure what you explictely refer to. I have posted this question after reading the Form documentation, and I found it impossible to get the prefered design with or next to the individual controls.

4

When you run the code as you’ve shown above, what does the resulting HTML look like?

5

echo (‘€’.$this->Form->control(…) ); leads to
image

And with the templateVars:
image

6

I think you want to use the input template, not the inputContainer. The {{content}} part of the container template will include the label, the input, and maybe some other things.

7

So I should template the {{content}}? I don’t understand the template<->Form syntax, I should probably leave it for now then.

$this->Form->setTemplates([
‘input’ => '{{sign}} {{content}} ’

removes the input field and creates HTML:
image

8

The input template doesn’t have a {{content}} placeholder. See the full list.