cakephp-tools/docs/Helper/Typography.md

Typography Helper

A CakePHP helper to handle typographic consistency.

The basic idea is to normalize all input into a standard typography (utf8 default). So different quotes like » or “ end up as " in the database. See the TypographicBehavior docs for input modification.

Upon output one can the decide to re-apply localization here.

Usage

Basic usage

Include helper in your AppView class as

$this->loadHelper('Tools.Typography', [
    ...
]);

Then you can use it in your templates as

echo $this->Typography->autoTypography($myText);

Configuration

It uses Configure key 'App.language' by default to detect the output format. So if you have Configure::write('App.language', 'deu'); in your bootstrap, it will use German typography. A string "Interesting Quote" will then become the German „Interesting Quote‟. English (US) would be “Interesting Quote” and French, for example, «Interesting Quote».