PHP Library For HTML Tag Generation

Question

I'm a PHP newb. Sorry if this is an FAQ... Let's say I have this HTML table:

Solution 1:

You can use Codeigniter html tables and form helper but that's about it. The rest is up to you.

Solution 2:

See non OO-Answer of PHP HTML Creation Library:

example.php:

<?php
require ("html.php");
  // crete a header
  $head=head(title("This is an example"));
  // and a body
  $body=body(h(1,"This is a header 1").pre("With some preformatted text").hr());
  // wrap it in html
  echo html($head.$body);
?>

html.php:

<?php
/**
 * HTML Abstraction
 */

   // anchor   
   function a($href,$la,$indent=-1) {
     return attrtag("a",attr("href",$href),$la,$indent,$indent);
   }

   // break
   function br($indent=-1) {
     return tag("br","",$indent,$indent);
   }

   // header
   function h($h,$lh,$indent=-1) {
     if ($indent<0) 
       $indent=$h+1;
     return tag("h".$h,$lh,$indent,-1);
   }

   // horizontal ruler
   function hr($indent=-1) {
     return tag("hr","",$indent,$indent);
   }

   // image
   function img($src,$alt,$width,$height,$indent=-1) {
     return attrtag("img",attr("src",$src).attr("alt",$alt).attr("width",$width).attr("height",$height),"",$indent,$indent);
   }

   // pre formatted content
   function pre($content,$indent=-1) {
     return tag("pre",$content,$indent);
   }

   // table 
   function td($ltd,$indent=5) {
     return tag("td",$ltd,$indent,$indent);
   }

   // table header
   function th($lth,$indent=5) {
     return tag("th",$lth,$indent,$indent);
   }

   // table row
   function tr($ltr,$indent=4) {
     return tag("tr",$ltr,$indent,$indent);
   }


   // table
   function table($lt,$indent=3) {
     return tag("table",$lt,$indent,$indent);
   }

   // title
   function title($title,$indent=2) {
     return tag("title",$title,$indent,-1);
   }

   // head
   function head($head,$indent=1) {
     return tag("head",$head,$indent,$indent);
   }

   // body
   function body($body,$indent=1) {
     return tag("body",$body,$indent,$indent);
   }

   // html
   function html($html) {
     return tag("html",$html,-1,0);
   } 
   // indentation by the given count
   function indentation($count) {
     return str_repeat("  ",$count);
   }

   // adds a newline    
   function line($line) {
     return $line."\n";
   }

   // an attribute with a given value
   // or empty if value is not set
   function attr($attr,$value) {
     if (empty($value))
       return "";
     else
       return " ".$attr."='".$value."'";
   }

   // attributed tag, possibly indented
   function attrtag($tag,$attr,$ltagcontent,$openindent=-1,$closeindent=-1) {
    $html="<".$tag.$attr;
    if ($openindent>=0)
      $html="\n".indentation($openindent).$html;
    if (empty($ltagcontent)) {
      $html.="/>";
        if ($closeindent>=0)
          $html.="\n".indentation($closeindent);
    } else {
        $html.=">".$ltagcontent;
        if ($closeindent>=0) {
          $html.="\n".indentation($closeindent);
        }
        $html.="</".$tag.">";
    }
    return $html;
   }

   // tag with possible indentation
   function tag($tag,$ltagcontent,$openindent=-1,$closeindent=-1) {
      return attrtag($tag,"",$ltagcontent,$openindent,$closeindent);
   }

    // indent the given lines
   function indent($html,$indent) {
     $result="";
     $lines=explode("\n",$html);
     foreach($lines as $line) {
       $result.=indentation($indent).$line."\n"; 
     }
     return $result;
   }

?>

Solution 3:

codeigniter does this kind of stuff. i’d suggest you look into that.

Solution 4:

While not an exact match, the Yii framework uses the CHtml class to assist in generating html.

Solution 5:

I didn't find a library so I've continued to update my own HTML tab library.

Code Html5