From e942c2032ffb2933aa6be09603802e072e72e64d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Taylor Otwell <taylorotwell@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 15:06:36 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Added macro support to HTML class to match Form class.

---
 laravel/html.php | 41 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 38 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/laravel/html.php b/laravel/html.php
index 9268acc8..bcb69628 100644
--- a/laravel/html.php
+++ b/laravel/html.php
@@ -2,6 +2,25 @@
 
 class HTML {
 
+	/**
+	 * The registered custom macros.
+	 *
+	 * @var array
+	 */
+	public static $macros = array();
+
+    /**
+     * Registers a custom macro.
+     *
+     * @param  string   $name
+     * @param  Closure  $input
+     * @return void
+     */
+	public static function macro($name, $macro)
+	{
+		static::$macros[$name] = $macro;
+	}
+
 	/**
 	 * Convert HTML characters to entities.
 	 *
@@ -319,7 +338,7 @@ public static function attributes($attributes)
 		{
 			// For numeric keys, we will assume that the key and the value are the
 			// same, as this will conver HTML attributes such as "required" that
-			// may be specified as required="required".
+			// may be specified as required="required", etc.
 			if (is_numeric($key)) $key = $value;
 
 			if ( ! is_null($value))
@@ -345,8 +364,7 @@ protected static function obfuscate($value)
 		{
 			// To properly obfuscate the value, we will randomly convert each
 			// letter to its entity or hexadecimal representation, keeping a
-			// bot from sniffing the randomly obfuscated letters from the
-			// page and guarding against e-mail harvesting.
+			// bot from sniffing the randomly obfuscated letters.
 			switch (rand(1, 3))
 			{
 				case 1:
@@ -365,4 +383,21 @@ protected static function obfuscate($value)
 		return $safe;
 	}
 
+	/**
+	 * Dynamically handle calls to custom macros.
+	 *
+	 * @param  string  $method
+	 * @param  array   $parameters
+	 * @return mixed
+	 */
+	public static function __callStatic($method, $parameters)
+	{
+	    if (isset(static::$macros[$method]))
+	    {
+	        return call_user_func_array(static::$macros[$method], $parameters);
+	    }
+	    
+	    throw new \Exception("Method [$method] does not exist.");
+	}
+
 }