PHP-Dynamic-Html
An extensible and dynamic HTML helper library for PHP
Update
The new version includes some cleaner approaches and more logical interfaces.
The changes are as follows:
- Removed auto echo setting: It seemed to only complicate what should be simple, so I removed this. Storage and output methods can be approached from the custom user app itself.
- Added DynamicTags::mergeAttr()
: Converts & merges passed arrays. Especially useful for extending. See examples below.
- Changed DynamicTags::attrArrayToStr()
to DynamicTags::createAttrString()
and added support for param string as well as array
- Added mapColsArr()
, mapCols()
, mapRowsArr()
, and mapRows()
See docs below
Introduction
This library, and it's classes, are fairly straight-forward. The encouragement is to extend with your own tags/methods, for others to use, and for your own projects.
The initial motivation was to further divide server-side code from client-side code. A furthering motivation was to provide an extensible interface for script-to-HTML mapping in the most basic of forms, saving us from messy(and slow) code.
Installation
Via Composer
composer require iautomation/dynamic-html
and include composer if needed
include './vendor/autoload.php'
Alternate
Include the class files from the src directory
Example Usage
Basic Example
Below is a full html document written completely with DynamicTags
<?php
use \DynamicHtml\DynamicTags as DT;
use \DynamicHtml\DynamicTagsShort as DTS;
use \DynamicHtml\DynamicTagsHelper as DTH;
echo DT::create('!DOCTYPE', 'html', null);
echo DT::html();
echo DT::head();
echo DT::base('href=http://blah.com&id=blah'); // or echo DT::base(['href'=>'http://blah.com', 'id'=>'blah']);
echo DT::meta('name=description&content=This is the description');
echo DT::end();
echo DT::body();
echo DT::header();
echo DT::ul();
echo DT::li(null, DTH::hyperlink('http://...', null, 'one'));
echo DT::li(null, DTH::hyperlink('http://...', null, 'two'));
echo DT::li(null, DTH::hyperlink('http://...', null, 'three'));
echo DT::end(2);
echo DTH::table([
['1', '2', '3'],
['2', '3', '1'],
]);
echo DT::style();
echo <<<EOT
[testselector] {
background: blue;
color:white;
}
EOT;
echo DT::end();
echo DT::div('testselector', 'hi');
echo DT::endAll();
Classes
Below is specific documentation to each class, it's methods, and example usage.
DynamicHtml\DynamicTags
The main class providing methods to convert attributes, create start and end tags, and record/output end tags using the end()
method.
Example Usage
use \DynamicHtml\DynamicTags as DT;
echo DT::span('id=name', 'John Doe'); // or
echo DT::span(['id'=>'name'], 'John Doe'); // or
echo DT::span('id=name').'John Doe'.DT::end();
Methods
-
`__callStatic($method, $args)`
-
`create($name, $attr=null, $content=true)`
-
`end($amount=1)`
-
`endAll()`
-
`createStartTag($name, $attr=null)`
-
`createEndTag($name)`
-
`addTagToLog($name)`
-
`removeTagFromLog()`
-
`mergeAttr()`
-
`createAttrString($attr=null)`
-
`mapColsArr($method, $columns)`
-
`mapCols($method)`
-
`mapRowsArr($method, $rows)`
-
`mapRows($method)`
DynamicHtml\DynamicTagsShort
A helper to accessing DynamicTags, only with the short tag configured(by setting $content to false)
Example Usage
use \DynamicHtml\DynamicTagsShort as DTS;
echo DTS::br();
// without this class, we'd have to type:
// echo DT::br(null, false);
Methods
-
`__callStatic($method, $args)`
DynamicHtml\DynamicTagsHelper
Lastly, we have the a helper class, though useful, can also be seen as an example class. Provides a showcase of methods extending DynamicTags.
Example Usage
use \DynamicHtml\DynamicTagsHelper as DTH;
echo DTH::hyperlink('http://...', null, 'one');
echo DTH::table([
['1', '2', '3'],
['2', '3', '1'],
]);
Methods
-
`stylesheet($href, $attr=null)`
-
`hyperlink($href, $attr=null, $content=true)`
-
`table($body_rows, $head_fields=null)`
-
`tableHead($fields)`
-
`tableHeadRow($fields)`
-
`tableBody($rows)`
-
`tableBodyRow($fields)`