Generating labels and inputs separately [SOLVED]

Yii 2.0 General Discussions
1

Hello. I have form, which is hard to generate with field(), because layout contains a lot of html between label, input and error. Instead of fighting with template option, in Yii1 I could use CHtml::activeTextField, CHtml::activeLabel and form was normally working with validation. How I can do it in Yii2?

2

Yii2 Active fields are wrapped in bootstrap. Perhaps you can use the activeform itself and get the desired layout.

3

activeLabel(), activeTextInput() and likes are implemented in yii\helpers\Html. They are the equivalents of CHtml::activeXXXX in Yii 1.1.

Please refer to the API documentation of yii\helpers\Html.

http://www.yiiframework.com/doc-2.0/yii-helpers-html.html

The extended yii\bootstrap\(Base)Html also supports them just with the same name and the signatures.

4

Referring to this: https://github.com/yiisoft/yii2/issues/3237 client-side validation will not work and this is by design. Maybe there is another way?

Edit

I found solution here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24698403/how-to-display-only-label-and-error-for-activefield-in-yii2


echo $form->field($model, 'fieldname')->begin();

        echo Html::activeLabel($model,'fieldname');

        echo Html::activeTextInput($model, 'fieldname');

        echo Html::error($model,'fieldname', ['class' => 'help-block']);

echo $form->field($model, 'fieldname')->end();

I think this is important and should be mentioned in docs.