使用带有特殊字符编码的Cakephp Forms

Question

I'm starting to use cakephp and i still have some doubts. Precisely about the .ctp files. After research, i found they are template files used to phpcake to read php code. But what about the encoding. I tested this code in a file with "Utf-8 without bom" codification", but browsers still can't recognize letters like "ç" or "ã" contained in the following example:

<!-- File: /app/View/Posts/add.ctp -->

<h1>Add Post</h1>
<?php
echo $this->Form->create('Post');
echo $this->Form->input('Nome Produto');
echo $this->Form->input('Código Produto');
echo $this->Form->input('Versão');
echo $this->Form->input('Data');
//echo $this->Form->input('body', array('rows' => '3'));
echo $this->Form->end('Criar Ficha');
?>

There is some particular configuration i need to add to this ctp files to avoid this codification problems?

P.S. Problem solved. The Form->input was created wrong. Should have been:

echo $this->Form->input('cod_produto', array('label' => 'Código Produto:'));

since the first parameter is the name of the field in the bd. Thanks mark for all the help!

Answer 1

Try putting the following line into your default.ctp template file (or whatever template file your whole site is using). This should set the encoding of the whole site no matter which page you are on:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />