HTML helper

• Usage

The HTML helper can be used to generate nearly any HTML tag.

The HTML helper will return HTML5 tags but you can make it return XHTML compatible tags by defining the phpMAKO_XHTML constant.

Usage

The phptag method can be used to generate nearly any HTML tag.

// Will print "<br>"

echo HTML::tag('br');

// Will print <span>Hello, world!</span>

echo HTML::tag('span', array(), 'Hello, world!');

// Will print <span id="foo" class="bar">Hello, world!</span>

echo HTML::tag('span', array('id' => 'foo', 'class' => 'bar'), 'Hello, world!');

The phpaudio method generates HTML5 tags for audio files.

echo HTML::audio('http://example.org/file.mp3');

echo HTML::audio(array('http://example.org/file.mp3', 'http://example.org/file.ogg'));

The phpvideo method generates HTML5 tags for video files.

echo HTML::video('http://example.org/file.mp4');

echo HTML::video(video('http://example.org/file.mp4', 'http://example.org/file.ogg'));

The phpul method generates HTML tags for an unordered list.

$items = array('apple', 'banana', 'orange');

echo HTML::ul($items);

echo HTML::ul($items, array('class' => 'my_list'));

// It also supports multi-dimensional arrays

$items = array('foo', 'bar', array('bar', 'foo'));

echo HTML::ul($items);

The phpol method generates HTML tags for a ordered list.

$items = array('apple', 'banana', 'orange');

echo HTML::ol($items);

echo HTML::ol($items, array('class' => 'my_list'));

// It also supports multi-dimensional arrays

$items = array('foo', 'bar', array('bar', 'foo'));

echo HTML::ol($items);

The phpmacro method allows you to register custom tag methods.

HTML::macro('p', function($content, array $attributes = array())
{
	return HTML::tag('p', $attributes, $content);
});

// Will print <p>Hello</p>

HTML::p('Hello!');

// Will print <p class="foo">Hello</p>

HTML::p('Hello!', array('class' => 'foo'));