The rest of the methods available in the FormHelper are for creating specific form elements. Many of these methods also make use of a special $options parameter. In this case, however, $options is used primarily to specify HTML tag attributes (such as the value or DOM id of an element in the form).

<?php echo $form->text('username', array('class' => 'users')); ?>
 
Output:
 
<input name="data[User][username]" type="text" class="users" id="UserUsername" />

1. <?php echo $form->text('username', array('class' => 'users')); ?>
3. Output:
5. <input name="data[User][username]" type="text" class="users" id="UserUsername" />