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DOMDocument::load

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(PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)

Load XML from a file

Description

DOMDocument::load(string $filename, int $options = 0): bool

Loads an XML document from a file.

Warning

Unix style paths with forward slashes can cause significant performance degradation on Windows systems; be sure to call realpath() in such a case.

Parameters

filename: The path to the XML document.
options: Bitwise OR of the libxml option constants.

Return Values

Success

Errors/Exceptions

If an empty string is passed as the filename or an empty file is named, a warning will be generated. This warning is not generated by libxml and cannot be handled using libxml's error handling functions.

Changelog

Version	Description
8.3.0	This function now has a tentative `bool` return type.
8.0.0	Calling this function statically will now throw an `Error`. Previously, an `E_DEPRECATED` was raised.

Examples

Creating a Document

php

<?php
$doc = new DOMDocument();
$doc->load('examples/book.xml');
echo $doc->saveXML();
?>