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Html-Form

Lightweight PHP classes to generate html elements.

This package does not have any dependency other than php-5.4

• License: MIT

Requirements

• PHP 5.4.0 or above

Installation

Composer

Composer is a widely used dependency manager for PHP packages. This Html-Form is available on Packagist as user-meta/html and can be installed by running the composer require command. To enable Composer for you project, refer to the project's Getting Started documentation.

To add this dependency using the command, run the following from within your project directory:

Get Started

A quick example of generating text input with Html-Form using composer:

Output:

Almost all types of html element can be used. (e.g: button, email, div, p etc)

Output:

Usage

Basic Usage

Accepted arguments

Most of the element accept two arguments:

• $default : Default value
• $attributes : Array of attributes
• echo Html::text($default, attributes);

For options element like select, radio, it accept third argument as $options

• $options: Array of options. The array can contains key-value pair or only values
• echo Html::select($default, attributes, $options);

using name, id and class

To assign name, id, class or any other attributes, use second arguments ($attributes)

A text field with default value, name, id and class attributes:

Output:

Add attributes to element

You can also add any attributes into any element:

Output:

using required, readonly and disabled

Output:

Using label

Output:

A div with id and class attributes:

Output:

lebel with label text, id, class and for attributes

Output:

Using checkbox

Simple checkbox with default checked

Output:

Pass first argument as false for default unchecked. echo Html::checkbox(false)

List of checkbox

Create a list of checkboxes with default values

Output

To get array of values by POST or GET method

Output

Using select / radio

Create a select with default value, name and id attributes

Output

Create a list of radio

Output

Using collection

Several elements can be grouped together as collection

Output:

Collection uses Html constructor and accept two parameters.

• $type (optional): name of tag. (e.g. form, div)
• $attributes (optional): array of attributes

Form example

Generating a form using collections:

Output:

Nested collections

Generating html template using nested collections:

Using as xml generator

Output

Advanced

It is possible to create any html element by calling their name.

Under the hood, we use Html::input() for input element and Html::tag() for html tag

Create an email input by using input method:

Create h1 by using tag method:

Add html to before and after elements

Output

Enclose with another element.

Output

several way to set options for select / multiselect / radio / checkbox

Output

Mixing several way with one options array

Output

Using numeric value

Output

Security

Escaping Output

Escaping means stripping out unwanted data, like malformed HTML or script tags.

The library apply esc_attr to value attribute. esc_url to href and src attributes.