根据PHP类创建HTML表单

Question

If I have PHP class for example like this:

class Person {    
    private $dateOfBirth;
    private $height;

    public function getDateOfBirth() {
        return $this->dateOfBirth;
    }

    public function setDateOfBirth($dateOfBirth) {
        $this->dateOfBirth = $dateOfBirth;
    }

    public function getHeight() {
        return $this->height;
    }

    public function setAge($height) {
        $this->height= $height;
    }
}

Is there some nice solution how to dynamically generate HTML form according to this class?

<form action="action.php" method="post">
    <input type="date" name="DateOfBirth" value="1900-01-01"/>
    <input type="number" name="Height" value="180"/>
    <input type="submit" class="submit" value="Submit"/>
</form>

The only solution that I came up with is to iterate all properties of class and generate inputs. And if the name of the property contains e.g. 'date' make 'input type="date"'. But I don't really like this solution. Given that property Height is obviously number type, its name doesn't indicate it. And I don't want to rename it. Property names must remain the same.

Thanks for responses

Answer 1

Maybe the most precise solution will be to create DB table with details for every class and generate form according to this table.

form_fields http://www.cloud.vnovak.cz/form_fields.png

Compound key on class and order columns.