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 &quot;.
>
> > 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
> > (&quot;nav01&quot;, &quot;images/nlOn-curved.gif&quot;); 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)?
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