HTML - a stupidly simple class for spitting out tags

HTML.php

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+<?php
+namespace SparkLib;
+
+class HTML {
+  /**
+   * spit out an HTML tag
+   *
+   * takes a tag name, an array of attribute name/values, and an
+   * optional body.
+   *
+   * if an attribute value is a literal true instead of a string,
+   * just the attribute name will be inserted. this probably isn't
+   * valid XHTML, but i think it's valid HTML5
+   *
+   * @param string tag name
+   * @param array attribute name/value pairs
+   * @param string contents of the tag
+   */
+  protected function makeTag ($tagname, array $attributes, $contents = null)
+  {
+    $close = ($contents === null) ? true : false;
+    $html = $this->startTag($tagname, $attributes, $close);
+
+    // if we got something to put inside, wrap it up
+    // otherwise put it in a self-closing tag
+    // n.b., this is potentially flawed for <script>
+    if ($close)
+      return $html;
+    else
+      return $html . $contents . "</{$tagname}>";
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Make a start tag, optionally self-closing.
+   */
+  protected function startTag ($tagname, array $attributes = array(), $close = false)
+  {
+     // open the tag
+    $html = '<' . $tagname;
+
+    // handle attributes
+    foreach ($attributes as $a => $v) {
+      if     ($v === null) continue;              // nothing
+      elseif ($v === true) $html .= ' ' . $a;     // bare attribute, no value
+      else                 $html .= ' ' . $a . '="' . htmlspecialchars($v) . '"'; // attribute="value"
+    }
+
+    if ($close)
+      return $html . ' />';
+    else
+      return $html . '>';
+  }
+
+}