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PHP - HTML Generation Class

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## PHP - HTML Generation Class

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

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<?php
    /**
     * html
     *
     * @copyright Copyright 2010 (c) Jared Clarke @ Pixaweb.co.uk
     * @author Jared Clarke <jared@pixaweb.co.uk>
     * @version 0.1
     */
    class html {

public $element;
        public $innerHTML;
        public $attributes = array();

private $special = array("img", "input", "hr", "br", "meta", "link");

public function __construct($element, $innerHTML = NULL, $attributes = NULL) {

$this->element = $element;

if(!is_null($innerHTML))
                $this->innerHTML($innerHTML);

if(!is_null($attributes))
                $this->attributes($attributes);
                
        }

public function __toString() {
            return $this->generate();
        }

public function attributes($attributes) {

$this->attributes = array_merge($this->attributes, (array) $attributes);

return $this;

}

public function innerHTML($innerHTML) {
            
            $this->innerHTML = $innerHTML;

return $this;

}

public function output() {
            return $this->generate();
        }
        
        private function generate() {

$html = "<{$this->element}";

if(!empty($this->attributes)) {
                foreach($this->attributes AS $key => $value) {
                    // allow boolean array("disabled" => true);
                    if(is_bool($value)) {
                        // most browsers support <.. disabled OR disabled="disabled" />
                        if(!$value) continue;

$value = $key;

}

$html .= ' '. $key .'="'. $value .'"';

}
            }

if(in_array($this->element, $this->special)) {

$html .= "/>";

return $html;

}

$html .= ">{$this->innerHTML}</{$this->element}>";

return $html;

}

}
    
    $input = new html("input");
    echo $input->attributes(array("name" => "test", "value" => "testing", "disabled" => true))->output();
    // <input name="test" value="testing" disabled="disabled"/>

echo new html("a", "Link Text", array("href" => "http://www.google.com"));
    // <a href="http://www.google.com">Link Text</a>

$html = new html("a");
    $html->innerHTML("Link Text");
    $html->attributes(array("href" => "http://www.google.com"));
    echo $html->output();
    // <a href="http://www.google.com">Link Text</a>
    
    echo $html->innerHTML("Link Text")->attributes(array("href" => "http://www.google.com"))->output();
    // <a href="http://www.google.com">Link Text</a>
    
    $html->innerHTML = "Override Text";
    echo $html->output();
    // <a href="http://www.google.com">Override Text</a>
    
    $html->attributes["href"] = "http://www.yahoo.com";
    echo $html->output();
    // <a href="http://www.yahoo.com">Override Text</a>
    
?>

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