The good news is that its nice to see someone featured on ajaxian . (both vikas and myself are 23 btw...cheers to that ! ). The bad news ,i knew he could do better .
The API needed a little bit more extensibility and scalability . And thats how i got on a hacking marathon to show how to integrate this class ive made to make ...say a tag creator .Here is vika's code usage :
PHP implementation of pQuery:
Here my custom built html helper , i write - that would not only go with jQuery ,but heck i use it for spitting out everything from body tags with onload 's , to hr tags , and tables -tr's running in reccursive loops .
- =$pquery->form_remote_tag(array('url'=>'index.php?task=ajax','update'=>'#idtoupdate'));?>
- Field : "field"
- < type = "submit">
Here my custom built html helper , i write - that would not only go with jQuery ,but heck i use it for spitting out everything from body tags with onload 's , to hr tags , and tables -tr's running in reccursive loops .
Demo of tvhtmlHelper.php:
/**
* @description - A simple Tag creator written in php that uses tvHTMLHelper
* @author Bhasker V Kode
* @date Feb23,2007
* @copyright Some Rights Reserved
*/class TagCreator extends tvHTMLHelper{
public function addTag($type=NULL , $tag=NULL){
switch($type){
case 'technorati':
/*OUTPUT :will output the html for a tag .
return $this->insert('a','start',array("href"=> "http://www.technorati.com/tags/$tag" ,"rel"=>"tag")) . $tag . $this->insert('a','end') ;
break;
/*
case 'youtubeVideoLink':
// follow similiar style to embed a youtube video , or so on for other widgets of your choice .
*/
}
}
$myInstant = new TagCreator;
echo $myInstant->addTag('html','start'); echo $myInstant->addTag('body','start',array("onload"=>"init();" , "class"="bC"); echo $myInstant->addTag('technorati','tvhtmlhelper'); echo $myInstant->addTag('technorati','bosky101'); echo $myInstant->addTag('technorati','php');
echo $myInstant->addTag('body','end'); echo $myInstant->addTag('html','end'); Notice the following design differences pQuery and tvHTMLHelper:
- Inheritance is good for you !
Primary usage pattern would be to extend this class where you deal with html a lot. - To echo or not to echo !
If youve noticed ,in pQuery it prints instead of returning . Mine does not echo on its own .but return the html string instead ! .This can be used when you need to generate html to be used later ,like writing concatenating to a string /or sending mail /etc . Being generic never does any harm in helper classes. This i feel is a big pitfall in pQuery . - Clear cut definition boundaries of beginning and ending .
The API has a startEnd for obvious reasons. This might be a major fallout in pQuery . If you do attempt to seperate presentation from logic , then why make it half way ? do it well or its better off not to do it at all . - Scalability.
Now tvHtmlHelper does not limit you to jQuery but basically every web page . Heck ,i even use it for a custom build stringToXML class ive written where i could use the API in loops like this : $myInstant->insert('channels','start',array("length"=>1,"foo"=>"bar"));- OR links
$myInstant->insert('a','start',array("href"=>$link1,"id"=>"foo","class"=>"fadeClass"));- Useful across file types : xml ,html , tagging ,and link generation !
You could even extend tvHtmlHelper to replace the < > symbols with custom ones or words .like ,what ever you pass through the API will come out as a technorati tag !
I'd love to get any feedback on this ,or places where you might be able to use this .
Keep Clicking,
Bhasker V Kode
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