DOMDocument::prepend

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(PHP 8)

Prepends nodes before the first child node

Description

DOMDocument::prepend(DOMNode|string ...$nodes): void

Prepends one or many nodes to the list of children before the first child node.

DOMDocument::prepend example

Adds nodes before the document root.

php

<?php
$doc = new DOMDocument;
$doc->loadXML("<world/>");

$doc->prepend($doc->createElement("hello"), "beautiful");

echo $doc->saveXML();
?>

The above example will output:

output

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<hello/>
beautiful
<world/>