print inside postLink with CakePHP 2

Question

i was wondering if there's any way to print " " inside a postLink element using CakePHP.

I want to get something like this:

<a href="#">&nbsp;</a>

And trying this:

'.$this->Form->postLink(nl2br(" "), array('action'=> 'xxxx')).'

I get this instead:

<a href="#">&amp;nbsp;</a>

Which prints me   inside the link instead of printing a white space.

Answer 1

Since postLink() is nothing else than a special wrapper for link() there should also be escape

$this->Form->postLink(nl2br(' '), array('action' => 'xxxx'), array('escape' => false));

see https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp/blob/master/lib/Cake/View/Helper/FormHelper.php#L1582