Re: Change default labeling in views

I'm not sure. But, if it's just a question of the default header, that
can be anything you want (or not there at all). It's just Cake's
default layout for scaffolding.

On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 11:49 AM, McScreech<screech@sympatico.ca> wrote:
>
> Thank you Brian,
>
> Is there any existing mechanism to do such a substitution for labeling
> automatically, i.e., change 'pops' (the table name) to 'populations'
> automatically for presentation. Something along the lines of the
> $displayField variable in the model?
>
> On Sep 3, 11:02 am, brian <bally.z...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 10:51 AM, McScreech<scre...@sympatico.ca> wrote:
>>
>> > Hello,
>>
>> > What does the double underscore represent in the following code from
>> > the head of the index.ctp file for the users view?
>> >    <div class="users index">
>> >    <h2><?php __('Users');?></h2>
>>
>> __() is a function in basics.php that is used to translate strings
>> using the I18n class. If there's no .po file, or if the given key is
>> not present in the .po file, the input string is simply returned. So,
>> if you haven't set up internationalisation, it causes no harm. If you
>> have no use for I18N, and want to save a few cycles here and there,
>> you can strip out the PHP to change that to just <h2>Users</h2> (or
>> whatever).
>>
>> > I can see the results in the rendered page, but the reason I ask is
>> > that I would like to change this output without mucking up something
>> > else unintentionally. I have setup my db with some tables using
>> > abbreviated names, i.e., 'pops' rather than 'populations' for the
>> > simple convenience of saving 7 keystrokes per instance in long lines
>> > of code, or 'clons' rather than 'clones' which is a reserved word in
>> > php.
>>
>> > TIA, McS
>>
>> > P.S. I've always chuckled at the ironic length of the word
>> > 'abbreviation', or 'shortening' for that matter.
> >
>

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