PHP 7 Programming Cookbook

Creating an HTML select element generator

Generating an HTML single select element is similar to the process of generating radio buttons. The tags are structured differently, however, in that both a SELECT tag and a series of OPTION tags need to be generated.

How to do it...

1. First of all, create a new Application\Form\Element\Select class that extends Application\Form\Generic.
2. The reason why we extend Generic rather than Radio is because the structuring of the element is entirely different:

   namespace Application\Form\Element;
   
   use Application\Form\Generic;
   
   class Select extends Generic
   {
     // code
   }

3. The class constants and properties will only need to add slightly to Application\Form\Generic. Unlike radio buttons or checkboxes, there is no need to account ...