Element Helper for Lithium

Installation

Composer

composer require jasonroyle/li3_element

Git

git submodule add https://github.com/jasonroyle/li3_element.git libraries/li3_element

Enable the Library

Make the application aware of the library by adding the following to app/config/bootstrap/libraries.php.

Libraries::add('li3_element');

Render

Renders an element.

Params

• $element (string)
• $data (array, optional)

Return

Rendered HTML (string)

Grid

Iterates through items and renders an element per item. The elements are wrapped in row and column divs and returned as a rendered HTML string.

Params

• $element (string)
• $data (array)
• $options (array, optional)

Return

Rendered HTML (string)

Examples

By default the first value of the data array will be used as the items of which to iterate through.

The following example iterates through posts, replaces the post value of the data array with the individual post and passes the data on to the element to render.

echo $this->element->grid('post', ['post' => $posts]);

To pass more data to each of the elements simply append the data array.

echo $this->element->grid('post', [
	'post' => $posts,
	'foo' => $foo,
	'bar' => $bar
]);

Set columns, offset and max options to control how the items are displayed.

The following example renders 3 posts per row, ignores the first 2 posts and limits the amount of displayed posts to 9.

echo $this->element->grid('post', ['post' => $posts], [
	'columns' => 3,
	'offset' => 2,
	'max' => 9
]);

Appling attributes to rows and columns.

The following example applies the class="row" attribute to each row and the class="column" attribute to each column.

echo $this->element->grid('post', ['post' => $posts], [
	'columns' => 5,
	'row' => ['class' => 'row'],
	'column' => ['class' => 'column']
]);

The following example renders the same as the last except the attribute class="column first" is applied to every first column of each row and the attribute class="column last" is applied to every last column of each row.

echo $this->element->grid('post', ['post' => $posts], [
	'columns' => 5,
	'row' => ['class' => 'row'],
	'column' => ['class' => 'column'],
	'first_column' => ['class' => 'column first'],
	'last_column' => ['class' => 'column last']
]);

The following example renders the same as the last except the last row contains only one column. The attribute class="column first last" is applied to this column.

echo $this->element->grid('post', ['post' => $posts], [
	'columns' => 5,
	'max' => 11,
	'row' => ['class' => 'row'],
	'column' => ['class' => 'column'],
	'first_column' => ['class' => 'column first'],
	'last_column' => ['class' => 'column last'],
	'first_and_last_column' => ['class' => 'column first last']
]);