DOMDocument::saveHTML

(PHP 5, PHP 7)

Dumps the internal document into a string using HTML formatting

public string DOMDocument::saveHTML ([ DOMNode $node = NULL ] )

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:

node

Optional parameter to output a subset of the document.

Returns:

Returns the HTML, or FALSE if an error occurred.

Changelog:

5.3.6

The node parameter was added.

Examples:

Saving a HTML tree into a string

<?php

$doc = new DOMDocument('1.0');

$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 $doc->saveHTML();

?>