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diff --git a/user_guide_src/source/helpers/form_helper.rst b/user_guide_src/source/helpers/form_helper.rst
index b2a9b6f0f..8f7515788 100644
--- a/user_guide_src/source/helpers/form_helper.rst
+++ b/user_guide_src/source/helpers/form_helper.rst
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ form_open()
.. php:function:: form_open($action = '', $attributes = '', $hidden = array())
:param string $action: Form action/target URI string
- :param string $attributes: HTML attributes
+ :param array $attributes: HTML attributes
:param array $hidden: An array of hidden fields' definitions
:returns: string
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ Here's a simple example::
The above example would create a form that points to your base URL plus the
"email/send" URI segments, like this::
- <form method="post" accept-charset="utf-8" action="http://example.com/index.php/email/send" />
+ <form method="post" accept-charset="utf-8" action="http://example.com/index.php/email/send">
Adding Attributes
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
@@ -52,9 +52,13 @@ parameter, like this::
$attributes = array('class' => 'email', 'id' => 'myform');
echo form_open('email/send', $attributes);
-The above example would create a form similar to this::
+Alternatively, you can specify the second parameter as a string::
+
+ echo form_open('email/send', 'class="email" id="myform"');
+
+The above examples would create a form similar to this::
- <form method="post" accept-charset="utf-8" action="http://example.com/index.php/email/send" class="email" id="myform" />
+ <form method="post" accept-charset="utf-8" action="http://example.com/index.php/email/send" class="email" id="myform">
Adding Hidden Input Fields
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
@@ -65,6 +69,8 @@ third parameter, like this::
$hidden = array('username' => 'Joe', 'member_id' => '234');
echo form_open('email/send', '', $hidden);
+You can skip the second parameter by passing any falsy value to it.
+
The above example would create a form similar to this::
<form method="post" accept-charset="utf-8" action="http://example.com/index.php/email/send">
@@ -77,7 +83,7 @@ form_open_multipart()
.. php:function:: form_open_multipart($action = '', $attributes = array(), $hidden = array())
:param string $action: Form action/target URI string
- :param string $attributes: HTML attributes
+ :param array $attributes: HTML attributes
:param array $hidden: An array of hidden fields' definitions
:returns: string
@@ -407,16 +413,14 @@ The third parameter contains a boolean TRUE/FALSE to determine whether
the box should be checked or not.
Similar to the other form functions in this helper, you can also pass an
-array of attributes to the function
-
-::
+array of attributes to the function::
$data = array(
'name' => 'newsletter',
- 'id'      => 'newsletter',
- 'value'   => 'accept',
+ 'id' => 'newsletter',
+ 'value' => 'accept',
'checked' => TRUE,
- 'style'   => 'margin:10px'
+ 'style' => 'margin:10px'
);
echo form_checkbox($data);