Cakephp option tag attributes

Question

In the view:

echo $this->Form->input('Ingredient');

The above populate multiple select list that HTML output as:

<select name="data[Ingredient][Ingredient][]" option="hh" multiple="multiple" id="IngredientIngredient">
<option value="1" selected="selected">Tomato</option>
<option value="2">Spaghetti </option>
<option value="3" selected="selected">Salt</option>
</select>

What I need to know is how to add attributes to the generated <option> tag?

Answer 1

Use the controller to pass selected values:

if ($this->request->is('post') {
    // save form
} else {
    $this->request->data['Incredient']['Incredient'] = $ids;
}

See here

To add additional attributes like classes you just need to make it a deeper array and you can pass those:

$options = array(
    1 => 'One', 
    2 => array('name' => 'Two', 'value' => 2,  'class' => 'extra'), 
    3 => 'Three');

echo $this->Form->input('test', array('type' => 'select', 'options' => $options));

The result:

<div class="input select">
    <label for="ModelTest">Test</label>
    <select name="data[Model][test]" id="ModelTest">
        <option value="1">One</option>
        <option value="2" class="extra">Two</option>
        <option value="3">Three</option>
    </select>
</div>

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