Customizing your form labels in CakePHP 1.2
If you want to customize the labels placed on forms you can assign an array to the label parameter in the $form helpers options, for example :-
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The generated HTML output for the above line is :-
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The CakePHP documentation is getting better by the day, you can read a more comprehensive list of $form->input options now under the book section Automagic-Form-Elements.