Docs For Class SimpleTag

Description

HTML or XML tag.

Located in /tag.php (line 21)

Direct descendents

Class	Description
SimpleBaseTag	Base url.
SimpleTitleTag	Page title.
SimpleAnchorTag	Link.
SimpleWidget	Form element.
SimpleLabelTag	Tag to keep track of labels.
SimpleFormTag	Tag to aid parsing the form.
SimpleFrameTag	Tag to aid parsing the frames in a page.

Variable Summary

mixed $_attributes

mixed $_content

mixed $_name

Method Summary

SimpleTag SimpleTag (string $name, hash $attributes)

void addContent (string $content)

void addTag ( &$tag, SimpleTag $tag)

boolean expectEndTag ()

string getAttribute (string $label)

array getChildElements ()

string getContent ()

string getTagName ()

string getText ()

boolean isId (string $id)

boolean isPrivateContent ()

string _setAttribute (string $label, $value)

Variables

mixed $_attributes (line 23)

mixed $_content (line 24)

mixed $_name (line 22)

Methods

Constructor SimpleTag (line 34)

Starts with a named tag with attributes only.

SimpleTag SimpleTag (string $name, hash $attributes)

string $name: Tag name.
hash $attributes: Attribute names and string values. Note that the keys must have been converted to lower case.

addContent (line 68)

Appends string content to the current content.

access: public

void addContent (string $content)

string $content: Additional text.

Redefined in descendants as:

SimpleSelectionTag::addContent() : Text within the selection element is ignored.
MultipleSelectionTag::addContent() : Text within the selection element is ignored.

addTag (line 77)

Adds an enclosed tag to the content.

access: public

void addTag ( &$tag, SimpleTag $tag)

SimpleTag $tag: New tag.
&$tag

Redefined in descendants as:

SimpleSelectionTag::addTag() : Adds an option tag to a selection field.
MultipleSelectionTag::addTag() : Adds an option tag to a selection field.

expectEndTag (line 46)

Check to see if the tag can have both start and end tags with content in between.

return: True if content allowed.
access: public

boolean expectEndTag ()

Redefined in descendants as:

SimpleBaseTag::expectEndTag() : Base tag is not a block tag.
SimpleTextTag::expectEndTag() : Tag contains no content.
SimpleSubmitTag::expectEndTag() : Tag contains no end element.
SimpleImageSubmitTag::expectEndTag() : Tag contains no end element.
SimpleButtonTag::expectEndTag() : Check to see if the tag can have both start and end tags with content in between.
SimpleUploadTag::expectEndTag() : Tag contains no content.
SimpleRadioButtonTag::expectEndTag() : Tag contains no content.
SimpleCheckboxTag::expectEndTag() : Tag contains no content.
SimpleFrameTag::expectEndTag() : Tag contains no content.

getAttribute (line 104)

Accessor for an attribute.

return: Attribute value.
access: public

string getAttribute (string $label)

string $label: Attribute name.

getChildElements (line 94)

List of legal child elements.

return: List of element names.
access: public

array getChildElements ()

getContent (line 127)

Accessor for the whole content so far.

return: Content as big raw string.
access: public

string getContent ()

getTagName (line 85)

Accessor for tag name.

return: Name of tag.
access: public

string getTagName ()

getText (line 138)

Accessor for content reduced to visible text. Acts like a text mode browser, normalising space and reducing images to their alt text.

return: Content as plain text.
access: public

string getText ()

isId (line 148)

Test to see if id attribute matches.

return: True on match.
access: public

boolean isId (string $id)

string $id: ID to test against.

isPrivateContent (line 59)

The current tag should not swallow all content for itself as it's searchable page content. Private content tags are usually widgets that contain default values.

return: False as content is available to other tags by default.
access: public

boolean isPrivateContent ()

Redefined in descendants as:

SimpleTextAreaTag::isPrivateContent() : The content of textarea is not part of the page.
SimpleOptionTag::isPrivateContent() : The content of options is not part of the page.

_setAttribute (line 118)

Sets an attribute.

return: New attribute value.
access: protected

string _setAttribute (string $label, $value)

string $label: Attribute name.
$value