Adding an additional link button to a form (using form->create)

Question

I have recently been assigned a CSS & design project that's in a CakePHP environment and would like to know if I can add an additional button to the form, for a "sign up" link.

The form is currently:

 echo $form->create('User', array('action' => 'login'));
    echo $form->inputs(array(
      'legend' => 'Please log in:',
      'username', 'password'));
 echo $form->end('Login');

I would like to inject a button that goes to an action of 'register', preferably after the "Login" button, on the same line, like this:

---

username: [ ]

password: [ ]

[Log In] [Register]

---

I have everything but the 'register' button. Is this possible using the 'automagic' form creation? Thank you.

Answer 1

Yep, pretty easy in Cake! Just use the FormHelper's "button" method.

echo $form->button( 'Register' );

of course, this will still send the action to the URL specified in Form::create, but you can do some magic in the controllers to correctly act on the request.

http://book.cakephp.org/view/791/button

Answer 2

Maybe you can try this:

echo $form->button('Register', array('onclick'=>"window.location='/users/register';"));

Answer 3

I'd make another form.

echo $form->create('User', array('action'=>array('controller'=>'users','action'=>'register'));
echo $form->end('Register');

Then at least you are not really 'hacking' the framework at all, and up with semantically correct code, with an accurate action.