tg-php@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
What are some of the other "killer features" of PHP5 that I may be sleeping on here.
You have got to get your hands on XMLWriter. I don't write any XHTML
inside php any more. I've wrapped the XMLWriter object inside my own
object and now I can create 100% properly escaped XHTML without ever
using a '>' or '<' symbol:
<?php
$XML = new XTag('a', 'href', $href, 'title', 'This is a test & such.');
$XML->push('img', 'src', $img_src, 'width', 100, 'height', 50, 'border', 0);
$XML->pop(2); // img, a
print $XML->toXML();
// outputs: <a href="[$href value here]" title="This is a test &
such."><img src="[$img_src value here]" width="100" height="50"
border="0"/></a>
?>
XMLWriter handles:
* the escaping of characters to ensure I'm writing XHTML compliant code,
* tags are guaranteed to open and close in the proper nested order,
* content is encoded with UTF-8 encoding,
* indentation of XHTML is optional
* php code is legible without needing to backslash double and single
quotes
* PECL version of XMLWriter (gonna be in 5.2) contains ability to
write raw (unescaped content) into your xml so you can merge
already-created snippets of XHTML into your XHTML.
* good for creating syntax valid XHTML 1.0+ strict output
* good for creating syntax valid XML documents
There are a couple other 'gotta have' features of 5.1+ that are cool ...
like PDO etc. Sadly, all that is cool appears to be cutting edge and so
documentation and examples are seriously lacking. I find myself reading
the source of many extensions just to try to figure out how to use
them. Maybe that's a sign I'm upgrading too often? Of course, everyone
is using 5.1.4 with XMLWriter from PECL, right?
Dante
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