The HtmlChain is a small class for creating HTML code with PHP:
$html = new HtmlChain();
echo $html->div();
Will output:
<div></div>
Okay, thats very borring. But you can chain the elements! So, whats about this:
echo $html
->doctype()
->html()
->head()
->title('Fresh Page')
->utf8()
->end()
->body()
->h1('Hello World')->end()
->p('What do you think?')
;
With this result:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Fresh Page</title>
<meta charset="utf-8">
</head>
<body>
<h1>Hello World</h1>
<p>What do you think?</p>
</body>
</html>
The Chain recognize next elements and try to close it for you:
echo $html->div()->div();
Will result in:
<div></div>
<div></div>
If you like to nest the div containers, e.g. for a gridlayout, just pass a classname, seperated with underscore.
echo $html
->div_container()
->div_row(array('class' => 'head'))
->div_grid_6()
->div_grid_6()
->div_row(array('class' => 'body'))
->div_grid_4()
->div_grid_4()
->div_grid_4()
->div_row(array('class' => 'footer'))
->div_grid_12()
The result is a perfect structured, right indented html output:
<div class="container">
<div class="row head">
<div class="grid_6"></div>
<div class="grid_6"></div>
</div>
<div class="row body">
<div class="grid_4"></div>
<div class="grid_4"></div>
<div class="grid_4"></div>
</div>
<div class="row footer">
<div class="grid_12"></div>
</div>
</div>
Sometimes there are problems, e.g.:
echo $html->h1('Hello')->p('World');
Results in:
<h1>Hello<p>World</p></h1>
But there are a solution, its named end() (or close() with the shortcut c()):
echo $html->h1('Hello')->end()->p('World');
And you get:
<h1>Hello</h1>
<p>World</p>
With the magic __call() function you can use nearly every tag as a nativ function. So start with:
echo $html->form();
//or
echo $html->table()->tr()->td('Cell 1')->td('Cell 2');
Pass a string as content and/or an array with attributes:
echo $html->div('Hello', array('rel' => 'home'));
//alternativ
echo $html->div('Hello', ['rel' => 'home']); //hello php 5.4, yeah!!
Output:
<div rel="home">Hello</div>
There are a few special tags for faster code creation:
$html->doctype(); //<!DOCTYPE html>
$html->mailto('info@domain.com'); //<a href="mailto:info@domain.com">info@domain.com</a>
$html->utf8(); //<meta charset="utf-8">
Its just an example and a proof of concept. So its copyrighted by me. If you want to use it, just drop me a line.
Check the PHPUnit Tests for more examples!