Question

I’m a PHP newb. Sorry if this is an FAQ…

Let’s say I have this HTML table:

<table width="100%" cellpadding="12" cellspacing="0" border="0">
  <tr bgcolor="black">
    <td align="left">
      <img src="logo.gif" />
    </td>
    <td>
      <h1>Hello</h1>
    </td>
    <td align="right">
      <img src="logo.gif" />
    </td>
  </tr>
</table>

Instead of escaping to HTML (?> ... <?php) or using echo with manual string construction, I’d like to use PHP functions to generate the code. I cooked up a library so that the above example can be generated with this:

echo table(
  array('width' => '100%', 'cellpadding' => '12', 'cellspacing' => '0', 'border' => '0'),
    tr(
      array('bgcolor' => 'black'),
      td(
        array('align' => 'left'),
        img(array('src' => 'logo.gif'))),
      td(array(), h1(array(), 'Hello')),
      td(array('align' => 'right'), img(array('src' => 'logo.gif')))));

My question is, is there already a popular or commonly used library that does this?

Answer 1

I didn’t find a library so I’ve continued to update my own HTML tab library.