Back again with more TinyMVC code. As I get more into this framework the more code I’ll be posting up, the functions in the code below are to be used directly from TinyMVC views and not controllers or models.

One of the most useful features below is block($view) allowing you to directly output other views, inside your view (like CakePHP does) although this is technically not following “strict” MVC guidelines it is still a very useful feature.

tinymvc_script_helpers.php

<?php

function esc($string) {
  return htmlentities($string);
}

function anchor($url,$text) {
	if (isset($url, $text)) {
		return "<a href=\"$url\">$text</a>";
	}
}

function css($css) {
	if (isset($css)) {
		if (is_array($css)) {
			foreach ($css as $file) {
				echo '<link rel="stylesheet" href="'.$file.'" media="screen" />'."\n";
			}
		} else {
			echo '<link rel="stylesheet" href="'.$css.'" media="screen" />'."\n";
		}
	}
}

function js($js) {
	if (isset($js)) {
		if (is_array($js)) {
			foreach ($js as $file) {
				echo '<script type="text/javascript" src="'.$file.'"></script>'."\n";
			}
		} else {
			echo '<script type="text/javascript" src="'.$js.'"></script>'."\n";
		}
	}
}

function block($bTemplate) {
	if (isset($bTemplate)) {
		$tmvc = tmvc::instance();
		$template = $tmvc->controller->view->fetch($bTemplate);
		
		if ($template) {
			echo $template;
			unset($template);
		}
	}
}

function arrp() {
	$arrs = func_get_args();
	if (isset($arrs) && is_array($arrs)) {
		echo '<pre style="padding: 5px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;">';
		$o='';
		foreach ($arrs as $key=>$val) {
			ob_start();
			var_dump($val);
			$o.=ob_get_contents();
			ob_end_clean();
		}
		echo htmlspecialchars($o, ENT_QUOTES);
		echo '</pre>';
	}
}

function relativeTime($utimestamp){
	if (isset($utimestamp)) {
		$types = Array('second', 'minute', 'hour', 'day', 'week', 'month', 'years', 'decade');
		$duration = Array(60, 60, 24, 7, 4.35, 12, 10);
		$gap = (time() - $utimestamp);
		if ($gap > 0) {
			$end = "ago";
		} else {
			$gap =- $gap;
			$end = "to go";
		}
		for($i = 0; $gap >= $duration[$i]; $i++) {
			$gap /= $duration[$i];
			$gap = round($gap);
		}
		if($gap != 1) {
			$types[$i].= "s";
			$reltime = $gap.' '.$types[$i].' '. $end;
		}
		return $reltime;
	}
} 

?>

Copy the above code into a file and name it tinymvc_script_helpers.php. Place this file in your TinyMVC applications plugin directory. You will need to register loading this file by using the following in any controller (or are using auto-loading ignore this)

$this->load->script('helpers');

You should now have access to all these functions directly from all of your views. Below is a table of the functions and their descriptions.

The Helpers

The helpers will be expanded upon and updated at some point, I am planning to integrate optional minifying and combining for the javascript and stylesheets sometime soon.

There are also plans to develop some sort of ‘Form builder’ and ‘Array to HTML Table’ generators etc. but this will come at a later time.

Enjoy.