OK. I'm not sure what I was doing wrong when I tried this before, but I got it to work using:
<td style="text-align: right; font-family: 'Ezra SIL'; font-size:150%;"><?php echo h($clause['Clause']['hebrew']); ?> </td> Obviously I can do the same thing by creating a class and using css. So I assume I need to next learn more about Theming. Thank you, again, Cricket. You were very helpful. On Friday, July 6, 2012 4:16:10 PM UTC-7, Kevin Mitchell wrote: > > Hi Cricket: > > Thank you, again. > > When I perform the bake, it creates the basic view files: add.ctp, > edit.ctp, view.ctp, and index.ctp. So, when I open my browser to a page, > e.g., http://localhost/cakebible/clauses, I get a table with all my > fields. Some of the fields are not wide enough to best display my > right-to-left text. So, I want to change the html or the css to make that > column wider. I'm trying to manually change the index.ctp file, adding a > width property, e.g.: <th width="400px"><?php echo > $this->Paginator->sort('hebrew'); ?></th>. But that does not seem to work. > So, I'm wondering what my next step is in learning how to format the pages > that have been baked. > > Kevin > > On Friday, July 6, 2012 2:51:43 PM UTC-7, cricket wrote: >> >> I'm sorry, I don't understand the question. You want to know how to >> deal with some text being wider? >> >> On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Kevin wrote: >> > It works! >> > >> > Thank you ... very, very, VERY much. >> > >> > So, somehow it knows that the Hebrew is right-to-left without being >> > explicitly told. That's great. >> > >> > I guess, next, I'll have to learn how to make some of the fields that >> > display wider, and perhaps, have a different Hebrew and Greek fonts. >> > >> > If you could help, is that something I change in the layout page, where >> it >> > has: >> > >> > <dt><?php echo __('Hebrew'); ?></dt> >> > <dd> >> > <?php echo h($clause['Clause']['hebrew']); ?> >> > >> > </dd> >> > >> > Or, do I change all of that by learning about Themes and using css? >> > >> > You were very helpful: very clear. Thank you! >> > >> > Kevin >> > >> > >> > On Friday, July 6, 2012 10:36:12 AM UTC-7, cricket wrote: >> >> >> >> You need to ensure that all parts of the application are using the >> >> same character encoding. UTF-8 is a good choice. >> >> >> >> When you create the database specify the encoding. For MySQL: >> >> >> >> CREATE DATABASE foo DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8; >> >> >> >> If you've populated the DB with a file full of data, first make sure >> >> that the file uses UTF-8. On a linux box: >> >> >> >> file --mime-encoding foo.sql >> >> >> >> Next include these two lines at the top of your import file to tell >> >> the DB how to treat the text: >> >> >> >> SET NAMES 'utf8'; >> >> SET CHARACTER SET 'utf8'; >> >> >> >> Then you need to include the following in database.php so that when >> >> Cake connects it tells the DB to respond with the correct encoding: >> >> >> >> 'encoding' => 'utf8' >> >> >> >> In core.php: >> >> >> >> Configure::write('App.encoding', 'UTF-8'); >> >> >> >> In your layout(s): >> >> >> >> <?= $this->Html->charset() ?> >> >> >> >> The latter will include this in the head: >> >> >> >> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> >> >> >> >> ... which tells the browser how to treat the content. >> >> >> >> On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 11:01 PM, Kevin wrote: >> >> > I am new to CakePHP, having just learned how to bake a table to >> create >> >> > Model, Controller, and View. One of the fields in my database is >> Hebrew >> >> > (with diacritics) and one is Greek; the remainder of the fields are >> >> > English. >> >> > How do I get the Hebrew and Greek to show up correctly? As is, I >> just >> >> > see a >> >> > bunch of question marks, e.g.: ????? ???. >> >> > >> >> > Thank you, so very much, for you expertise and time. >> >> > >> >> > Kevin >> >> > >> >> > -- >> >> > Our newest site for the community: CakePHP Video Tutorials >> >> > http://tv.cakephp.org >> >> > Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://ask.cakephp.org and >> help >> >> > others with their CakePHP related questions. >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> >> > [email protected] For more options, visit this >> group >> >> > at >> >> > http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php >> > >> > -- >> > Our newest site for the community: CakePHP Video Tutorials >> > http://tv.cakephp.org >> > Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://ask.cakephp.org and >> help >> > others with their CakePHP related questions. >> > >> > >> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> > [email protected] For more options, visit this >> group at >> > http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php >> > -- Our newest site for the community: CakePHP Video Tutorials http://tv.cakephp.org Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://ask.cakephp.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php
