Thanks for the explanation - looks like I jumped into waters deeper than I first thought.
I did the first part, although where do I modify the 'isset' attribute as you said above? On Feb 8, 4:37 am, brian <bally.z...@gmail.com> wrote: > The last param, false, tells Cake to not escape the "title" (your > image, in this case). But you need to pass an 'escape' option in > $htmlAttributes to keep them from being escaped, also. > > echo $html->link( > $html->image('navigation/nlOn-curved.gif'), > 'http://www.external.com', > array( > 'onmousever'=>'changeImages("nav01", > "images/nlOn-curved.gif");return true;', > 'escape' => false > ), > null, false > ); > > HOWEVER, there seems to be a bug in HtmlHelper, which I've posted to Trac. [1] > > I think the Cake devs are trying to move as many params as possible > into array options, so that they may easily be handed down the chain > of methods. In this case, the link() method checks for that false > param to see if the title requires escaping, but it also looks in > $htmlAttributes for an escape option. If it's there, the title is also > escaped. > > The problem, though, is that the option is then unset before the array > is handed off to create the link attributes. The fix is to comment the > unset() line: > > if (isset($htmlAttributes['escape'])) { > $escapeTitle = $htmlAttributes['escape']; > //unset($htmlAttributes['escape']); > > } > > I guess the reasoning was that the 'escape' option was no longer > needed. But that fails to recognise that this option already had a > purpose before it was drafted into service controlling the escaping of > the link text ($title). > > [1]https://trac.cakephp.org/ticket/6071 > > On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 2:15 AM, Zolthar <zolt...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Thanks for the update, I had tried something similar, although did not > > succeed as quotes were converted to ". > > > Here is what I attempted: > > <?php echo $html->link( > > $html->image('navigation/nlOn-curved.gif'), > > 'http://www.external.com', > > array( > > 'onmousever'=>'changeImages("nav01", > > "images/nlOn-curved.gif"); > > return true;' > > ), > > null, false) ?> > > > Although the above turned out to be: > > <a href="http://www.external.com" onmousever="changeImages > > ("nav01", "images/nlOn-curved.gif"); return > > true;"><img src="/wplam/img/navigation/nlOn-curved.gif" alt="" /></a> > > > So I must be missing something here. Is there a way to force or escape > > the quote to be literal as opposed to being converted? > > > On Feb 7, 4:10 pm, Simz <ouellet.si...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> use the html helper > >> :http://book.cakephp.org/view/206/Inserting-Well-Formatted-elements > > >> image(string $path, array $htmlAttributes = array()) > > >> in your view (inside a php block) > > >> echo $html->image( > >> "menu1.jpg", > >> array( > >> "onmouseover"=>"yourJsRollOverFunc()", > >> "onclick"=>"jsFunc()", > >> "class"=>"mycssclass" > >> ) > >> ); > > >> wrap the php block with your link... > >> this should do the trick > > >> On Feb 6, 10:14 pm, Zolthar <zolt...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> > Learning cake/programming for the first time so please excuse me if > >> > this is a very noob question. I have tried to search this board > >> > without much success - as the responses were either too complicated or > >> > possibly I searching with the wrong keywords. > > >> > What I am after is how do I get a linked image to swap like > >> > onmouseover using javascripts (or any other option)? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cake-php+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---