Re: How do I get some fields to display as Greek, some as Hebrew (most as English)?

2012-07-06 Thread lowpass
Your welcome. Theming isn't really the issue here. But you're correct that it's a CSS thing. The reason why width="400px" didn't work is that the width attribute should be the number only, unlike with CSS where you should include the 'px'. And you're right that this would best be handled by a CSS

Re: How do I get some fields to display as Greek, some as Hebrew (most as English)?

2012-07-06 Thread Kevin Mitchell
OK. I'm not sure what I was doing wrong when I tried this before, but I got it to work using:   Obviously I can do the same thing by creating a class and using css. So I assume I need to next learn more about Theming. Thank you, again, Cricket. You were very helpful. On Friday, July 6, 2012 4

Re: How do I get some fields to display as Greek, some as Hebrew (most as English)?

2012-07-06 Thread Kevin Mitchell
Hi Cricket: Thank you, again. When I perform the bake, it creates the basic view files: add.ctp, edit.ctp, view.ctp, and index.ctp. So, when I open my browser to a page, e.g., http://localhost/cakebible/clauses, I get a table with all my fields. Some of the fields are not wide enough to best d

Re: How do I get some fields to display as Greek, some as Hebrew (most as English)?

2012-07-06 Thread lowpass
I'm sorry, I don't understand the question. You want to know how to deal with some text being wider? On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Kevin Mitchell wrote: > It works! > > Thank you ... very, very, VERY much. > > So, somehow it knows that the Hebrew is right-to-left without being > explicitly told

Re: How do I get some fields to display as Greek, some as Hebrew (most as English)?

2012-07-06 Thread Kevin Mitchell
It works! Thank you ... very, very, VERY much. So, somehow it knows that the Hebrew is right-to-left without being explicitly told. That's great. I guess, next, I'll have to learn how to make some of the fields that display wider, and perhaps, have a different Hebrew and Greek fonts. If you c

Re: How do I get some fields to display as Greek, some as Hebrew (most as English)?

2012-07-06 Thread lowpass
You need to ensure that all parts of the application are using the same character encoding. UTF-8 is a good choice. When you create the database specify the encoding. For MySQL: CREATE DATABASE foo DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8; If you've populated the DB with a file full of data, first make sure t

How do I get some fields to display as Greek, some as Hebrew (most as English)?

2012-07-05 Thread Kevin Mitchell
I am new to CakePHP, having just learned how to bake a table to create Model, Controller, and View. One of the fields in my database is Hebrew (with diacritics) and one is Greek; the remainder of the fields are English. How do I get the Hebrew and Greek to show up correctly? As is, I just see a