Using CakePHP FormHelper with Bootstrap Forms

Question

CakePHP\'s FormHelper is how you generate forms when making CakePHP applications. As one might assume, this includes generating input elements, like so:

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Answer 1

To get it working with a horizontal form in bootstrap with bootswatch I had to use:

echo $this->Form->create(
    'User',
    array(
        'action'        => 'add',
        'admin'         => 'false',
        'class'         => 'form-horizontal',
        'inputDefaults' => array(
            'format'  => array( 'before', 'label', 'between',
                                'input', 'error', 'after' ),
            'class' => 'form-control',
            'div'     => array( 'class' => 'form-group' ),
            'label'   => array( 'class' => 'col-lg-2 control-label' ),
            'between' => '
',
            'after'   => '
',
            'error'   => array( 'attributes' => array( 'wrap'  => 'span',
                                                       'class' => 'text-danger' ) ),
        )
    )
);

Then you can just use it as normal:

echo $this->Form->input( 'User.username' );