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Dumps the internal document into a string using HTML formatting
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DOMDocument::saveHTML

(PHP 5)

DOMDocument::saveHTML Dumps the internal document into a string using HTML formatting

Description

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.

Return Values

Returns the HTML, or FALSE if an error occurred.

Changelog

Version Description
5.3.6 The node parameter was added.

Examples

Example #1 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();

?>

See Also


DOMDocument
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