PHP Manual: DOMDocument::saveHTMLFile

Description

public function DOMDocument::saveHTMLFile(string $filename): int|false

Creates an HTML document from the DOM representation. This function is usually called after building a new dom document from scratch as in the example below.

Parameters

filename: The path to the saved HTML document.

Return Values

Returns the number of bytes written or false if an error occurred.

Examples

Example #1 Saving a HTML tree into a file

<?php

$doc = new DOMDocument('1.0');
// we want a nice output
$doc->formatOutput = true;

$root = $doc->createElement('html');
$root = $doc->appendChild($root);

$head = $doc->createElement('head');
$head = $root->appendChild($head);

$title = $doc->createElement('title');
$title = $head->appendChild($title);

$text = $doc->createTextNode('This is the title');
$text = $title->appendChild($text);

echo 'Wrote: ' . $doc->saveHTMLFile("/tmp/test.html") . ' bytes'; // Wrote: 129 bytes

?>

DOMDocument::saveHTMLFile

Description

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