How to make a form like this using yii\helpers\Html?

Question

Yii

There is a search form of the following type.

I want to pass to the controller in the actionSearch() method everything that the user submits.
How to turn this HTML:

<ul id="searchParams" class="dropdown-menu" role="menu">
     <li value="1"><a href="" title="Например, someauthor">Поиск автора </a></li>
     <li value="2"><a href="" title="Например, some word">Поиск публикации </a></li>
</ul>

into a similar php code:

<?php echo Html::ul($items = ['Поиск автора', 'Поиск публикации'], [
                    'class' => 'dropdown-menu',
                    'id' => 'searchParams',
                    'role' => 'menu',
                ]);
                ?>

Please tell me how:
1. Wrap $items for the list in Html::a() tag; ?
2. Set list items ($items)

Html::ul($items = ['Поиск автора', 'Поиск публикации'])

value attribute, for example?
3. Set Html::a() elements attributes and assign some values ​​to the attributes?
Thanks in advance for good advice. I want to do feng shui).

Answer 1

what is the problem with inserting html tags by hand? no one obliges you to write pure php code. and yes it will be right