Can I make a PHP function to create text input fields? [duplicate] - php

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So I'm going to be making a couple forms with multiple text input boxes, so I figured making a function to help automate this would be a good idea.
Below is the function I've come up with: however, the results I've gotten seem to be really weird, being a combination of "echo" and a mess of single quotes. Does everything look correct in there? I'm new to PHP, so I'm really sorry if it's an obvious mistake I'm missing.
function makeTextInputField($name)
{
echo '<label for = "<?php $name ?>"> <?php ucfirst($name) ?> </label><input type = "text" name = "<?php $name?>"></input>';
}

Answer 1

You should not use any more tag inside the php
function makeTextInputField($name)
{
echo '<label for = "'.$name.'">'.ucfirst($name).'</label><input type = "text" name = "'.$name.'" />';
}

Answer 2

Working Demo
Because you can insert line breaks in strings in PHP, you can make your function more readable by using variables inside it:
<?php
function makeTextInputField($name) {
$text = ucfirst($name);
echo "
<label for='{$name}'>{$text}</label>
<input type='text' name='{$name}' />
";
}
?>
And whenver you want to use it:
<h1>Welcome</h1>
<?php makeTextInputField('email'); ?>
OUTPUT
<h1>Welcome</h1>
<label for='email'>Email</label>
<input type='text' name='email' />

Answer 3

Your problem is that inside PHP code you're opening new PHP tags, which actually are not required. Try this function and see if it's working for you:
function makeTextInputField($name)
{
echo sprintf('<label for="%s">%s</label> <input type="text" name="%s"></input>', $name, ucfirst($name), $name);
}

Answer 4

Try with sprintf.
function textInput($name)
{
$html = '<label for="%1$s">%2$s</label><input type="text" name="%1$s"/>';
echo sprintf($html, $name, ucfirst($name));
}

Answer 5

<?php
class DeInput
{
protected $_format = '<div>
<label for="%s">%s</label>
<input class="formfield" type="text" name="%s" value="%s">
</div>';
public function render($content,$getFullyQualifiedName,$getValue,$getLabel)
{
$name = htmlentities($getFullyQualifiedName);
$label = htmlentities($getLabel);
$value = htmlentities($getValue);
$markup = sprintf($this->_format, $name, $label, $name, $value);
return $markup;
}
}

Answer 6

Putting PHP code inside quotation marks is somewhat bad practice so I using (.) point to combine strings can be used.
Here is my example:
function makeTextInputField($name) {
echo '<label for="'. $name .'">'.ucfirst($name).'</label>';
echo '<input type="text" name="'.$name .' />';
}

Answer 7

use return intead of echo, and it will be easier to manipulate with result.
Also you can split elements generation into different functions for more flexibility:
function createLabel($for,$labelText){
return '<label for = "'.$for.'"> '.ucfirst($labelText).'</label>';
}
function createTextInput($name,$value,$id){
return '<input type = "text" name = "'.$name.'" id="'.$id.'">'.$value.'</input>';
}
function myTextInput($name,$value,$labelText){
$id = 'my_input_'.$name;
return createLabel($id,$labelText).createTextInput($name,$value,$id);
}
echo myTextInput('email','','Type you email');

Answer 8

function makeTextInputField($name)
{
echo '<label for = "'.$name.'"> '.ucfirst($name).'</label><input type = "text" name = "'.$name.'"></input>';
}
That should work.
You are already in php. So no need for the <?php tags. Concatenate strings together with a .