Posted by Areric on 05/02/07 17:02

Hey all,

ASP.NET has a concept of a user defined web control, where a person
can implement their own web control and override the render method to
write out html for that control.

I was wondering, in general, do people ever follow a similar pattern
when writing PHP4+ code? By which i mean, i could write a WebControl
base class and a TextBoxControl that inherits from that, then in my
html markup instead of writing out the input tag by hand i could call
textBox->render().

Up to this point i have simply hard coded all the html myself and then
inserted echos into the appropriate places. However, im wondering if
this might be a better approach then having such "messy" html.

Any thoughts? Opinions?

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