PerchXMLTag

The PerchXMLTag class parses an XML tag as a string into a object that can be more usefully worked with.

$Tag = new PerchXMLTag('<perch:content id="heading" type="text" label="Give it a title">');

The attributes can then be accessed as properties:

echo $Tag->id;      // heading
echo $Tag->type;    // text
echo $Tag->label;     // Give it a title

Methods

There are a number of available methods

Get the attributes as an array.

print_r($Tag->get_attributes());

This returns a string of all the data- attributes from the tag, ideal for passing straight through in a templating scenario.

echo $Tag->get_data_attribute_string();

Attributes can also be set:

set($key=null, $val=false)

This enables you to manipulate a tag before passing it on.

Test if an attribute has been set:

if ($Tag->is_set('id')) {
    // id has been set
}

Get the name of the tag

echo $Tag->tag_name(); // perch:content

If you need to find attributes that begin with a certain prefix, you can do that with search_attributes_for

print_r($Tag->search_attributes_for('aria-'));

As well as parsing a string to an object, you can do the reverse. PerchXMLTag can be used staticly to programatically generate a tag.

echo PerchXMLTag::create('img', 'single', [
            'src' => 'dog.jpg',
            'width' => '640',
            'height' => '480',
        ]);

The arguments are: