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<?php
/**
A class that writes html either into a local buffer or directly to the output. Freely distributable as long as this header is kept at the top of the file and not modified.
@author Jean-Georges Estiot <jgestiot@gmail.com>
@version 2.0
*/
class html
{
static private $spaces_per_indent;
static private $stack;
static private $attributes;
static private $indent_level;
static private $buffer;
static private $buffered;
/**
init() must be called once before the class is used by the application. It sets up the indent, defaults to buffered output and calls reset().
@param int $spaces The number of spaces to use in the indentation
@return void does not return anything
*/
static public function init($spaces = 2)
{
self::$spaces_per_indent = $spaces;
self::$buffered = true;
self::reset();
}
/**
Resets some of the key elements of the class: the stack, the indent, the attributes and the buffer.
@return void does not return anything
*/
static public function reset()
{
self::$stack = array();
self::$indent_level = 0;
self::clear_attributes();
self::clear_buffer();
}
/**
* Returns the content of the buffer
@return string The content of the buffer.
*/
static public function get_buffer()
{
$temp = self::$buffer;
self::clear_buffer();
return $temp;
}
/**
*clears the buffer
@return void does not return anything
*/
static private function clear_buffer()
{
self::$buffer = '';
}
/**
Sets the buffering to true or false. If false, the class will output the tags immediately. If true, it will keep all content into the buffer for later use.
@param bool $how True for buffered and false for unbuffered.
@return void does not return anything
*/
static public function set_buffered($how)
{
self::$buffered = $how;
}
/**
Writes a string to the buffer. This is the only function in the class that outputs. If $indent is set to true, the string output is correctly indented, relative to other code.
@param string $string The string to write to output
@param bool $indent True to indent the string or false otherwise
@return void does not return anything
*/
static public function write($string, $indent = false)
{
if ($indent) $string = self::make_indent() . $string;
if (self::$buffered) self::$buffer.= $string;
else
{
echo $string;
}
}
/**
Adds a single attribute to the next tag. Example for an `<input>` tag: add_attribute('type','checkbox');
@param string $name The name of the attribute
@param string $value The value of the attribute
@return void does not return anything
*/
static public function add_attribute($name, $value)
{
self::$attributes[$name] = $value;
}
/**
Adds more than one attribute to the next tag
The attributes for the tag are passed in the format array('attribute'=>'value'). So array('id'=>'tag_id','class'=>'myclass') would produce this div tag:
`<div id=tag_id" class="myclass">`
@param array $ar The array holding the attributes
@return void does not return anything
*/
static public function add_attributes($ar)
{
if (is_array($ar))
{
self::$attributes = array_merge(self::$attributes, $ar);
}
}
/**
Outputs the attributes for the tag that were added with add_attribute() or add_attributes().
Example: if the previously-added attributes are array('id'=>'tag_id','class'=>'myclass'), expand_attributes() will
produce the string 'id=tag_id" class="myclass'.
Important: all attributes are cleared once the string is output.
@return void does not return anything
*/
static private function expand_attributes()
{
foreach (self::$attributes as $idx => $val)
{
self::write(' ' . $idx . '=' . '"' . $val . '"');
}
self::clear_attributes(); //always clear attributes when finished
}
/**
Clears all attributes. (The next tag will have no attributes)
@return void does not return anything
*/
static public function clear_attributes()
{
self::$attributes = array();
}
/**
Generates a tag. There are three flavours:
1) Open tags with no close and no content. Just the attributes if required: `<div class="myclass">`. This tag will require a call to close()
2) Tags that never require a close such as `<img href="image.jpg">`
3) Tags that have content and are immediately terminated on the same line `<title>Hello</title>`
For the first, use tag('div');
For the second, use tag('img',false,false) or the function single_tag()
For the third, simply pass the tag's content like so: tag('title','Hello')
@param string $tag The name of the tag. For example 'div' for the `<div>` tag
@param mixed $content A string for tags such as `<title>string</title>`
@param bool $push A flag indicating if the tag should be pushed onto the stack
@return void does not return anything
*/
static public function tag($tag, $content = null, $push = true)
{
$has_content = !is_null($content); // the content can be an empty string
if ($push)
{
array_push(self::$stack, $tag);
}
self::indent();
self::write('<' . $tag);
self::expand_attributes();
self::write('>');
if ($push) self::$indent_level++;
if ($has_content) self::write($content);
if (!$has_content) self::write("\n");
if ($push && $has_content)
{
self::close(false);
}
}
/**
Outputs a single tag such as `<img>` or `<input>`. Single tags do not require a closing tag.
@param string $tag The name of the tag. For example 'input' for an `<input>` tag
@return void does not return anything
*/
static public function single_tag($tag)
{
self::tag($tag, null, false);
}
/**
Closes the last opened tag. if $indent is set to false, there is no indentation, which is useful for tags where the open and close are on the same line like `<title>Title</title>`
@param bool $indent A flag controlling the indent. True for using indent
@return void does not return anything
*/
static public function close($indent = true)
{
$tag = array_pop(self::$stack);
self::$indent_level--;
if ($indent) self::indent();
self::write('</' . $tag . ">\n");
}
/**
Returns the padding needed to indent a tag or string of text
@return void does not return anything
*/
static private function make_indent()
{
return str_repeat(' ', self::$indent_level * self::$spaces_per_indent);
}
/**
* Performs the indentation by writing the padding returned by make_indent() to the output.
@return void does not return anything
*/
static private function indent()
{
if (self::$indent_level > 0) self::write(self::make_indent());
}
/**
Appends some arbitrary code to the buffer or ouputs it after applying the current indent level before the code and each time a newline is found.
If properly indented code is passed, it will be appended and properly indented into the existing html code.
A newline is inserted after the code.
@param string $code The code to be appended
@return void does not return anything
*/
static public function insert_code($code)
{
$indent_factor = "\n" . self::make_indent();
self::indent();
$code = str_replace("\n", $indent_factor, $code);
self::write($code . "\n");
}
/**
Shortcut function to write a `<br>` to the buffer
@return void does not return anything
*/
static public function br()
{
self::write('<br>');
}
/**
Shortcut function to write a newline `\n` to the buffer
@return void does not return anything
*/
static public function nl()
{
self::write("\n");
}
/**
Shortcut function to write both `<br>` and `\n` to the buffer
@return void does not return anything
*/
static public function brnl()
{
self::br();
self::nl();
}
} // Ends html Class
?>