Create HTML Elements - Printable Version

Code:

$p = new element('p');

$a->set("href","http://codeigniter.com/");

$a->text("CodeIgniter Home");

$p->set( 'class','nice_p');

$p->text( 'This is a great site' );

$p->text( $a );

$p->output();

/*<p class="nice_p">This is a great site<a href="http://codeigniter.com/">CodeIgniter Home</a></p> */

Code:

&lt;?php

class Html_test extends Controller {



    function html_test(){

        parent::Controller();

        $this->load->library( array('element') );

    }

    

    function index(){

        

        // Create elements in bulk

        $elements = array('table','td','tr','a','form','input');

        foreach( $elements as $element )

        {

            $$element = new element($element);

        }



        /* Create codeigniter search feature*/

        $table->set( array("cellpadding"=>"0",

                           "cellspacing"=>"0",

                           "border"=>"0",

                           "style"=>"width:100%")

                    );

        

        $a->set( "href","http://codeigniter.com/");

        $a->text('CodeIgniter Home');

        

        $td->set( 'id',"breadcrumb" );

        // Build '<A>' tag to '<TD>' tag

        $td->text($a);

        // Clear '<A>' tag for another go        

        $a->clear();

        

        $a->set("href","../index.html");

        $a->text('User Guide Home');    



        $td->text($a);

        

        $td->text('Element Class');

        

        $tr->text($td);

        $td->clear();

        

        $td->set("id","searchbox");

        $form->set( array("method"=>"get",

                          "action"=>"http://www.google.com/search")

                   );

        

        $input->set( array("type"=>"hidden",

                           "name"=>"as_sitesearch",

                           "id"=>"as_sitesearch",

                           "value"=>"ellislab.com/codeigniter/user-guide/")

                    );

        

        $form->text("Search User Guide&nbsp;");

        $form->text($input);

        $input->clear();

        

        $input->set( array("type"=>"text",

                           "class"=>"input",

                           "style"=>"width:200px;",

                           "name"=>"q",

                           "id"=>"q",

                           "size"=>"31",

                           "maxlength"=>"255",

                           "value"=>"")

                    );

        $form->text($input);

        $form->text('&nbsp;');

        $input->clear();

        

        $input->set( array("type"=>"submit",

                           "class"=>"submit",

                           "name"=>"sa",

                           "value"=>"Go")

                    );

        $form->text($input);



        

        

        $td->text($form);

        

        $tr->text($td);

        

        $table->text($tr);

        

        $data =  array('breadcrumb'=>$table->output() );

        

        

        

        // Destroy elements in bulk

        foreach( $elements as $element )

        {

            unset($$element);

        }

        

        $this->load->view('htmlelements',$data);

    }

}

?&gt;

Code:

// controller

$a = new element('a');

$a->set("href","http://codeigniter.com/");

$a->text("CodeIgniter Home");



$data['ciLink'] = $a;

$this->load->view('view',$data);

// view

&lt;?php echo $ciLink->output('class="external"') ?&gt;

Code:

//7 commands

$p = new element('p');

$a->set("href","http://codeigniter.com/");

$a->text("CodeIgniter Home");

$p->set( 'class','nice_p');

$p->text( 'This is a great site' );

$p->text( $a );

$p->output();

/*<p class="nice_p">This is a great site<a href="http://codeigniter.com/">CodeIgniter Home</a></p> */

Code:

//3 commands which could be whittled down to 1, albeit contrived, command



$link_data = array("href"=>'http://www.site.com',

                   "text"=>"link text",

                   "class"=>'link class',

                   "target"=>'_blank')

                   ; //etc...



$links['home'] = new Element('a',$link_data);

//assumes that the Element function could actually return text ready for output

$p_attribs = array("class"=>"nice_p");

echo new Element('p',$p_attribs,$links['home']);