phpQuery

The PHP DOM Manipulation toolkit.

Motivation

I'm working currently with PHP, and I've missed using something like jQuery in PHP to manipulate the DOM. Therefore, I started doing it by myself. I'll improve this, step by step, to make it look like JavaScript's jQuery.

Context

There's a main PHP HTML document mainDoc that calls another PHP document anotherDoc to populate it. As we use either print or echo for returning strings to a PHP GET require, anotherDoc uses phpQuery to create HTML elements and return it to mainDoc. This is a more tidy-up way I found to do it instead of passing raw HTML strings to variables and concatenating it.

Current status

It looks more like Java than with JavaScript 😂

The main class created here that serves for basic uses, like creating headers and stuff, is the DOM_Element. You create it inputting the HTML item type you're creating (such as h2 or img), an array of attributes (like style or class), in name-value order, and the element's content (such as text or other stuff).

It has get and set methods as OOP requires, so you can get the attributes array and the content quite easily.

To render it on the browser, every DOM_Element has a function constructHTML() where it returns a String <type attr="value">content</type>.

Contribute

Testing

Run XAMPP, so it will run PHP on your local machine. (Don't have it? Install XAMPP!) Store this project insied htdocs folder (usually on C:\xampp on Windows. Dunno how it is on Mac or Linux)

Open localhost on your browser and put /phpQueryTest.php in the end of the URL. It will show a test HTML document I've made to show the phpQuery working.

Editing

You can edit phpQuery.php to edit the classes I did, and edit phpContent.php to test its behavior. IMPORTANT: Use Ctrl+F5 to update the page, since that this command reloads all the resources.