Hi, if I send something like PO Number to activeLabelEx
($form,'PO Number') it'll be shown as Po Number
Is there anyway I can disable the camel case feature? Thanks
Hi, if I send something like PO Number to activeLabelEx
($form,'PO Number') it'll be shown as Po Number
Is there anyway I can disable the camel case feature? Thanks
if PO Number is an attribute of the class of $form
you should use activeLabelEx like this:
activeLabelEx($form,'ponumberattributename')
and then in your model
public function attributeLabels()
{
return array(
...
'ponumberattributename'=>'PO Number',
...
);
}
"PO Number" is retrieved from my database. It's dynamic, depending on what the user entered. I'd think it'll be problematic to declare everything in the model right?
But I hope there's a simple fix to this, if not here, maybe in the next version, because I can see there's a lot of valid cases where the activeLabelEx will wrongly lowercase the parameter.
Why lower case it anyway? The framework shouldn’t change the semantic meaning of the data, if I saved it as “PO Number” in the database, I’d expect it to come out as “PO Number” as well. I hope there’s an easy way for us to disable it. I can go change the code behind it, but that beats the point of using a framework 
Thanks~
If it is retrieved from the database and part of the $form model you already have it, you should add only the attributelabels part. nothing else.
ActiveLabelEX fetches the label from the attributelabels methods, if you don't have a specific label declared there it is dinamically created by
public function generateAttributeLabel($name)
{
return ucwords(trim(strtolower(str_replace(array('-','_'),' ',preg_replace('/(?<![A-Z])[A-Z]/', ' ', $name)))));
}
if the name of the attribute in the DB is "PO Number" (with space???)
simply do this:
public function attributeLabels()
{
return array(
...
'PO Number'=>'PO Number',
...
);
}
It feels really pointless, but usually in the db you should have an attribute named for example po_number
the default label will be "Po Number" created by generateAttributeLabel
while if you wanted it different you should do:
public function attributeLabels()
{
return array(
...
'po_number'=>'PO Number',
...
);
}
It is more clear now?
I have a table with a column called parameter1, parameter2 and so on.
Each of the parameterX column stores the parameter name.
In my case, the table Report has a column parameter1 with the value "PO Number"
Another row may have PL Number as the data inside parameter1.
my function attributeLabels is like this
public function attributeLabels()
{
return array(
'reportID'=>'Report ',
'reportName'=>'Report Name',
'parameter1'=>'Parameter 1',
'parameter2'=>'Parameter 2',
I'm actually creating a runtime form, based on what the user entered into the database, so I don't think adding XYZ=XYZ in the attributeLabels will work. As I do not know what 'fields' the end user have entered.
Any other ways around this?
I guess you should extend your model class CFormModel/CActiveRecord and override generateAttributeLabel() to return a label of your choice.
Populate your runtime form from an instance of the extended class. (No guarantees, though. Not tested.)
/Tommy
Or you could try using label() instead
Yeah, you should override generateAttributeLabel().
Thanks… so far so good with yii