Q: generate html - code libraries?

[Malcolm Dew-Jones]

Is there a standard php library that one would normally use to generate
bits of html?

A typical task is to loop through some items and format them as the
options for a <select> in a form.

This sort of thing is so common I am assuming that at the code already
exists to do all this sort of html generating, and all I need to do is
"include" it and make a single function call in the right place.

something like

<?php include "html_tags. php" ?>
<form><select >
<?php echo show_options($m ylist,$choosen)
?></select></form>

I assume I just haven't looked in the right place yet, or if I did then I
didn't recognize the title for what it meant.

Thanks.

[Pedro Graca]

Re: Q: generate html - code libraries?

Malcolm Dew-Jones wrote:[color=blue]
> Is there a standard php library that one would normally use to generate
> bits of html?
>
> A typical task is to loop through some items and format them as the
> options for a <select> in a form.
>
> This sort of thing is so common I am assuming that at the code already
> exists to do all this sort of html generating, and all I need to do is
> "include" it and make a single function call in the right place.
>
> something like
>
> <?php include "html_tags. php" ?>
> <form><select >
> <?php echo show_options($m ylist,$choosen)
> ?></select></form>
>
> I assume I just haven't looked in the right place yet, or if I did then I
> didn't recognize the title for what it meant.
>
> Thanks.[/color]

I use implode()

<?php
$data = array('one', 'two', 'three');

echo '<select>';
echo '<option>', implode('</option><option> ', $data), '</potion>';
echo '</select>';
?>
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[Pedro Graca]

Re: Q: generate html - code libraries?

Pedro Graca wrote:[color=blue]
> echo '<option>', implode('</option><option> ', $data), '</potion>';[/color]
^^^^^^
LOL -- Of course there is no potion in my HTML :-)

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[Garp]

Re: generate html - code libraries?


"Malcolm Dew-Jones" <yf110@vtn1.vic toria.tc.ca> wrote in message
news:40ce0e96@n ews.victoria.tc .ca...[color=blue]
>
> Is there a standard php library that one would normally use to generate
> bits of html?
>
> A typical task is to loop through some items and format them as the
> options for a <select> in a form.
>
> This sort of thing is so common I am assuming that at the code already
> exists to do all this sort of html generating, and all I need to do is
> "include" it and make a single function call in the right place.
>
> something like
>
> <?php include "html_tags. php" ?>
> <form><select >
> <?php echo show_options($m ylist,$choosen)
> ?></select></form>
>
> I assume I just haven't looked in the right place yet, or if I did then I
> didn't recognize the title for what it meant.
>
> Thanks.[/color]

Tried Smarty template library yet? Template code looks like this:

<select name="mylist">
{foreach from=$mydata item=d}
<option value="{$d.id}" >{$d.text}</option>
{/foreach}
</select>

Garp