PHP函数与Echo

Question

I find myself lately working with a ton of tabular data, I am more than comfortable writing the raw html but i'm wondering if there's an easier way (or library worth implementing) that helps reduce time writing html tags such as

<tr><td></td></tr>

I have created my own custom function, but I think ultimately it's not necessarily helping and potentially could be slowing down my script, now my project is small so maybe it could cope with that, examples:

echo '<tr class="test_class">
    <td>' . $content . '</td>
    <td>' . $second_content . '</td>
<tr/>';

here is an example with my current function:

tr("test_class");
   td(); echo $content; escape(td);
   td(); echo $second_content; escape(td);
escape(tr);

Looking forward to hearing peoples thoughts.

Answer 1

There are multiple ways of doing this...

1. write your own html helper library, that will contain classes, that can generate html elements based on their data source. For instance you could call them like:

   <?php
      HtmlHelper::Table("someArrayOfValues", "idOfTable", "styleOfTable");
   ?>
   

   This is a good reusable solution, if you implement this idea properly. I was playing with this myself few days ago, really it's simple.

2. if you find 1. difficult, you can split the idea down... But not so deep like you've shown, but generate whole rows instead.

   <?php
       foreach ($myArray as $key => $value)
       {
            echo HtmlHelper::Row(...);
       }
   ?>
   

3. Find some library, that provides this functionality. Can't help you on this one I'm afraid. I like to have control over the generated markup.

Hope you get the idea.