How to modify wrapper div error class when using CakePHP with Bootstrap

Question

I\'m using Bootstrap 3.0RC1 with CakePHP 2.3.6. Trying to take advantage of those beautiful looking classes like has-error and has-w

Answer 1

I use a custom Helper that is tailored to whatever the CSS framework is. In this case Bootstrap.

 'form-control', 'div'=>false, 'error' => array('attributes' => array('wrap' => 'span', 'class' => 'help-block')));

        if (isset($options['label'])) {
            if (is_array($options['label'])) {
                $options['label'] += array('class' => 'control-label');
            } else {
                $options['label'] = array('text' => $options['label'], 'class' => 'control-label');
            }
        } else {
            $options['label'] = array('class' => 'control-label');
        }

        $divOptions = array('class' => "form-group has-feedback");
        if (isset($options['div'])) {
            if (is_array($options['div'])) {
                $divOptions += $options['div'];
            }
        }
        $options['div'] = false;                

        $divText = $this->Form->input($fieldName, $options);

        if ($this->Form->isFieldError($fieldName)) {
            $divOptions['class'] = "form-group has-error has-feedback";
            $divText .= $this->Html->tag('span', null, array('class' => "glyphicon glyphicon-remove form-control-feedback"));
        }

        return $this->Html->tag('div', $divText, $divOptions);
    }

}

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Then use this instead of the standard Form helper

echo $this->UI->textBox('email'));