an easy (perhaps dumb) question about PHP

I haven't been able to glean anything about this from the Oreilly books, php web site, or anywhere else so I am breaking down and asking on this list. In other scripting languages like Perl/Ruby/Python (that aren't meant to live in the web environment exclusively) there usually have a web library that writes basic html form input html types for like radio_button(name,val) and checkbox(name,val) type functions. I can't see that php has this type of feature. Perhaps this is deliberate as not having something preset affords more flexability in a way, I just want to be sure I am not missing something... does this kind of thing exist in PHP? Thanks. -Cere