DOMDocument::saveHTMLFile

(PHP 5, PHP 7)

Dumps the internal document into a file using HTML formatting

public int DOMDocument::saveHTMLFile ( string $filename )

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.

Returns:

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

Examples:

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
 
?>