On Thu, 2009-03-05 at 02:04 -0800, Michael A. Peters wrote:
> Robert Cummings wrote:
> > On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 18:01 -0800, Michael A. Peters wrote:
> >> Robert Cummings wrote:
> >>> On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 15:21 -0800, Michael A. Peters wrote:
> >>>> Robert Cummings wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> To punt what is repeated over and over during runtime to a single
> >>>>> compilation phase when building the template target. To simplify the use
> >>>>> of parameters so that they can be used in arbitrary order with default
> >>>>> values. To allow for the encapsulation of complex content in tag format
> >>>>> that benefits from building at compile time and from being encapsulated
> >>>>> in custom tags that integrate well with the rest of the HTML body.
> >>>> I can't speak to those (and I have no opinion on template systems having
> >>>> never used any of them.
> >>>>
> >>>>> To
> >>>>> remove the necessaity of constantly moving in and out of PHP tags.
> >>>> php does not require that you constantly move in and out of PHP tags.
> >>>> There's at least one and possibly several pure php solutions that allow
> >>>> one to never write a line of html but get beautiful dynamic html output.
> >>> It doesn't require, but if you're not moving between them, then you're
> >>> probably echoing your HTML, and that can be a maintenance nightmare.
> >> echoing html involves mixing html and php.
> >> Using an XML class (like DOMDocument) to build the document does not.
> >
> > So you punt the entire rendering of the HTML content to run-time
> > execution one node at a time?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Rob.
>
> This is what I do.
> I create the nodes as needed and add them to the parent nodes when I'm
> done with them - and when the document is finished, add the various
> content nodes to the body node, body/head nodes to html node, and then
> use saveXML(); to get the output as x(ht)ml to send to the browser.
>
> If that's what you described then yes. Otherwise, then no - it's not.
>
> some example, IE to build my form -
>
> $xmlForm = $myxhtml->createElement("form");
> $xmlForm->setAttribute("id","records");
> $xmlForm->setAttribute("method","post");
> if ($multipart > 0) {
> $xmlForm->setAttribute("enctype","multipart/form-data");
> }
> $xmlForm->setAttribute("action",$formaction);
> $xmlForm->setAttribute("onsubmit",$onsubmit);
> $hiddenDiv = $myxhtml->createElement("div");
> $hiddenDiv->setAttribute("id","hidden_inputs");
> $hinput=hiddenInput($myxhtml,"coord_pref",$coord_pref);
> $hinput->setAttribute("id","coord_pref");
> $hiddenDiv->appendChild($hinput);
> $hinput=hiddenInput($myxhtml,"alt_pref",$alt_pref);
> $hiddenDiv->appendChild($hinput);
> $hinput=hiddenInput($myxhtml,"temp_pref",$temp_pref);
> $hiddenDiv->appendChild($hinput);
>
> // etc ..
>
> if(isset($imgref)) {
> $hinput=hiddenInput($myxhtml,"imgref",$imgref);
> $hiddenDiv->appendChild($hinput);
> $hasimage=1;
> }
>
> if ($museum == 1) {
> if (isset($validarray['museum'])) {
> require('xml_record_museum.inc');
> } else {
> $hinput=hiddenInput($myxhtml,"museumid",$rcd_musid);
> $hinput->setAttribute("id","museumid");
> $hiddenDiv->appendChild($hinput);
> $hinput=hiddenInput($myxhtml,"museum_name",$rcd_musnum);
> $hinput->setAttribute("id","museum_name");
> $hiddenDiv->appendChild($hinput);
> }
> }
> if ($editrecord == 1) {
> $hinput=hiddenInput($myxhtml,"recordid",$record);
> $hiddenDiv->appendChild($hinput);
> }
> if (isset($validarray['species'])) {
> require('xml_record_species.inc');
> } else {
> $hinput=hiddenInput($myxhtml,"herpid",$rcd_species);
> $hinput->setAttribute("id","herpid");
> $hiddenDiv->appendChild($hinput);
> }
>
> ...
>
> $xmlForm->appendChild($hiddenDiv);
> $submitDiv = $myxhtml->createElement("div");
> $submitDiv->setAttribute("id","submitdiv");
> $submitDiv->setAttribute("class","formFloat");
>
> $submitInput = $myxhtml->createElement("input");
> $submitInput->setAttribute("type","submit");
> $submitInput->setAttribute("id","submit");
> $submitInput->setAttribute("name","submit");
> $submitInput->setAttribute("value",$submit_val);
> $submitDiv->appendChild($submitInput);
>
> $xmlForm->appendChild($submitDiv);
> $contentDiv->appendChild($xmlForm);
>
> The various requires are files that create various parts of the form.
> They are in individual separate files because some of them are used in
> other forms and I don't like to have replicated code that is
> functionally equivalent.
>
> hiddenInput is a simple function I wrote that returns an input node of
> type hidden - which I can (when needed, IE if I want to add an id tag
> for javascript hook) I can continue to modify.
>
> function hiddenInput($document,$name,$value) {
> $input = $document->createElement("input");
> $input->setAttribute("type","hidden");
> $input->setAttribute("name",$name);
> $input->setAttribute("value",$value);
> return($input);
> }
>
> Does that answer your question?
That was what I thought.
Cheers,
Rob.
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