Advanced Search

PHP - HTML Generation Class

/ Published in: PHP
Save to your folder(s)
## PHP - HTML Generation Class

This class allows you to generate (and fill) any HTML elements via programmatic or object-orientated methods

Expand | Embed | Plain Text

Copy this code and paste it in your HTML 
  1. <?php
  2.     /**
  3.      * html
  4.      *
  5.      * @copyright Copyright 2010 (c) Jared Clarke @ Pixaweb.co.uk
  6.      * @author Jared Clarke <[email protected]>
  7.      * @version 0.1
  8.      */
  9.     class html {
  10.  
  11.         public $element;
  12.         public $innerHTML;
  13.         public $attributes = array();
  14.  
  15.         private $special = array("img", "input", "hr", "br", "meta", "link");
  16.  
  17.         public function __construct($element, $innerHTML = NULL, $attributes = NULL) {
  18.  
  19.             $this->element = $element;
  20.  
  21.             if(!is_null($innerHTML))
  22.                 $this->innerHTML($innerHTML);
  23.  
  24.             if(!is_null($attributes))
  25.                 $this->attributes($attributes);
  26.  
  27.         }
  28.  
  29.         public function __toString() {
  30.             return $this->generate();
  31.         }
  32.  
  33.         public function attributes($attributes) {
  34.  
  35.             $this->attributes = array_merge($this->attributes, (array) $attributes);
  36.  
  37.             return $this;
  38.  
  39.         }
  40.  
  41.         public function innerHTML($innerHTML) {
  42.  
  43.             $this->innerHTML = $innerHTML;
  44.  
  45.             return $this;
  46.  
  47.         }
  48.  
  49.         public function output() {
  50.             return $this->generate();
  51.         }
  52.  
  53.         private function generate() {
  54.  
  55.             $html = "<{$this->element}";
  56.  
  57.             if(!empty($this->attributes)) {
  58.                 foreach($this->attributes AS $key => $value) {
  59.                     // allow boolean array("disabled" => true);
  60.                     if(is_bool($value)) {
  61.                         // most browsers support <.. disabled OR disabled="disabled" />
  62.                         if(!$value) continue;
  63.  
  64.                         $value = $key;
  65.  
  66.                     }
  67.  
  68.                     $html .= ' '. $key .'="'. $value .'"';
  69.  
  70.                 }
  71.             }
  72.  
  73.             if(in_array($this->element, $this->special)) {
  74.  
  75.                 $html .= "/>";
  76.  
  77.                 return $html;
  78.  
  79.             }
  80.  
  81.             $html .= ">{$this->innerHTML}</{$this->element}>";
  82.  
  83.             return $html;
  84.  
  85.         }
  86.  
  87.     }
  88.  
  89.     $input = new html("input");
  90.     echo $input->attributes(array("name" => "test", "value" => "testing", "disabled" => true))->output();
  91.     // <input name="test" value="testing" disabled="disabled"/>
  92.  
  93.     echo new html("a", "Link Text", array("href" => "http://www.google.com"));
  94.     // <a href="http://www.google.com">Link Text</a>
  95.  
  96.     $html = new html("a");
  97.     $html->innerHTML("Link Text");
  98.     $html->attributes(array("href" => "http://www.google.com"));
  99.     echo $html->output();
  100.     // <a href="http://www.google.com">Link Text</a>
  101.  
  102.     echo $html->innerHTML("Link Text")->attributes(array("href" => "http://www.google.com"))->output();
  103.     // <a href="http://www.google.com">Link Text</a>
  104.  
  105.     $html->innerHTML = "Override Text";
  106.     echo $html->output();
  107.     // <a href="http://www.google.com">Override Text</a>
  108.  
  109.     $html->attributes["href"] = "http://www.yahoo.com";
  110.     echo $html->output();
  111.     // <a href="http://www.yahoo.com">Override Text</a>
  112.  
  113. ?>

URL: http://www.pixaweb.co.uk/resources?tag=php5

Report this snippet


Comments

RSS Icon Subscribe to comments

You need to login to post a comment.