README

Markup is a package which let's you generate HTML code using objective PHP. It can be used as a helper in Blade templates (Laravel), but it basically is created as a support package for my other projects.

The package is framework-independent. This means you can install it in every project which is using PSR-4 autoloading.

Usage

Use Nethead\Markup\MarkupFactory to build object representation of the needed HTML. Use can generate menus, links, blocks, paragraphs, anything. MarkupFactory includes useful static helpers to quickly generate what you want. The package also includes a tag helper function if you like the functional approach more.

Generating HTML code

use Nethead\Markup\MarkupFactory as Html;
// or
use function Nethead\Markup\Helpers\tag;

// Link to Google.com
Html::anchor('https://google.com', ['Go to Google'])->blank();

// Image link
Html::anchor('https://google.com', [
    Html::image('/img/google.png', 'Google Logo')
])->blank();

// Paragraph
tag('p', ['class' => 'px-2'], [
    'Here is how you can search with',
    tag('a', ['href' => 'https://google.com'], ['Google'])->blank()
]);

Markup objects are designed to support methods chaining, with self-explanatory syntax, and ability to pass them through the chain of execution. It makes it easy to make changes to the markup with comfortable objective API, instead of operating on strings or arrays. This is useful for example when you have multiple modules, each altering or adding something to the HTML.

Using HtmlAttributes

Each Markup object has a public attrs() method which returns the HtmlAttributes object, which in turn allows you to set, remove or modify the attributes of an HTML element.

$menuItem = tag('li', ['class' => 'nav-item'], ['Discount!']);
// (...)
$menuItem->attrs()
    ->set('class', 'bold');

Using ClassList object

Each Markup object is also allowing you to set and remove CSS classes without calling the attr() object. You can access the ClassList object directly with classList() public method:

if ($menuItem->classList()->caintains('bold')) {
    $menuItem->attrs()->data('modal', 'discount');
}

Configuring the package

Using the HtmlConfig you can easily change how the HTML is generated. For example, if you like to have void tags (like input) closed everytime, just call this before you start creating:

use Nethead\Markup\Helpers\HtmlConfig;

HtmlConfig::$closeVoids = true;

Refer to the documentation to have a better insight of what can be configured and how.

Icons Factory

The IconsFactory makes it easy to switch between the icon fonts providers. By default, it is configured to generate Font Awesome HTML tags. For example, if you're using the Bootstrap's Glyphicons, you could do:

use Nethead\Markup\Helpers\IconsFactory;
use Nethead\Markup\Helpers\HtmlConfig;

HtmlConfig::$defaultIconsFactory = 'glyphicons';

print IconsFactory::icon('user');

Forms

You can build HTML forms using OOP PHP and easily add business logic. Look at the example below to see how easy it is to build a language select dropdown menu:

use Nethead\Markup\MarkupFactory as Html;

$langs = [
    'en_GB' => 'English (British)',
    'pl_PL' => 'Polski'
];

$select = Html::select('locale', $langs);
$select->attrs()
    ->on('change', 'this.form.submit();');

$form = Html::form('/select-locale', 'POST', [$select]);