From 8cd54776f129175d48c30d9b549af32375d48979 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Juan Basso <jrbasso@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2011 12:25:52 -0200
Subject: [PATCH] Created the method useTag in html, avoiding sprintf with Html
 tags in others helpers.

---
 cake/libs/view/helpers/html.php               | 20 +++++++++++++++++++
 .../cases/libs/view/helpers/html.test.php     | 16 +++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 36 insertions(+)

diff --git a/cake/libs/view/helpers/html.php b/cake/libs/view/helpers/html.php
index 951cd430c..7e4db5fcb 100644
--- a/cake/libs/view/helpers/html.php
+++ b/cake/libs/view/helpers/html.php
@@ -763,6 +763,26 @@ class HtmlHelper extends AppHelper {
 		return sprintf($this->tags[$tag], $name, $this->_parseAttributes($options, null, ' ', ''), $text, $name);
 	}
 
+/**
+ * Returns a formatted existent block of $tags
+ *
+ * @param string $tag Tag name
+ * @return string Formatted block
+ */
+	public function useTag($tag) {
+		if (!isset($this->tags[$tag])) {
+			return '';
+		}
+		$args = func_get_args();
+		array_shift($args);
+		foreach ($args as &$arg) {
+			if (is_array($arg)) {
+				$arg = $this->_parseAttributes($arg, null, ' ', '');
+			}
+		}
+		return vsprintf($this->tags[$tag], $args);
+	}
+
 /**
  * Returns a formatted DIV tag for HTML FORMs.
  *
diff --git a/cake/tests/cases/libs/view/helpers/html.test.php b/cake/tests/cases/libs/view/helpers/html.test.php
index 142fe91b5..41d0aed9b 100644
--- a/cake/tests/cases/libs/view/helpers/html.test.php
+++ b/cake/tests/cases/libs/view/helpers/html.test.php
@@ -1231,6 +1231,22 @@ class HtmlHelperTest extends CakeTestCase {
 		$this->assertTags($result, array('div' => array('class' => 'class-name'), '&lt;text&gt;', '/div'));
 	}
 
+/**
+ * testUseTag method
+ *
+ * @return void
+ */
+	public function testUseTag() {
+		$result = $this->Html->useTag('formend');
+		$this->assertTags($result, '/form');
+
+		$result = $this->Html->useTag('form', 'test');
+		$this->assertEqual($result, '<form test>');
+
+		$result = $this->Html->useTag('form', array('test' => 'ok'));
+		$this->assertTags($result, array('form' => array('test' => 'ok')));
+	}
+
 /**
  * testDiv method
  *