[TYPO3-team-core-v5] RFC: TagBuilder

[Bastian Waidelich]

Hi everybody,

Whenever we need to create HTML (or XML) tags from PHP (e.g. in the 
tag-based view helpers for Fluid) we end up concatenating long strings 
like this:

return '<a href="' . $uri . '" ' . $this->renderTagAttributes() . '>' . 
$this->renderChildren() . '</a>';

This is not very readable and very error-prone.
I think, it would be nice, to have some kind of Tag-builder, so that you 
could write s.th. like:*

$tag = new Tag('a');
$tag->addAttribute('href', $uri);
$tag->addAttributes($this->tagAttributes());
$tag->setContent($this->renderChildren());
return $tag->render();

I think that could be a neat little class for TYPO3 v4 _and_ FLOW3.
What do you think,
Useful?
Where to put this class and how to name it?

All the best and have a great week!
Bastian

* In the case of Fluids tag-based View helpers the base class could even 
create the tag and you'd only need to write:

$this->tag->addAttribute('href', $uri);