DOMDocument::saveHTMLFile
PHP function
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(PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)
Dumps the internal document into a file using HTML formatting
Description
DOMDocument::saveHTMLFile(string $filename): int|false
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
filenameThe path to the saved HTML document.
Return Values
Returns the number of bytes written or false if an error occurred.
Examples
Saving a HTML tree into a file
php
<?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
?>See Also
DOMDocument::saveHTMLDOMDocument::loadHTMLDOMDocument::loadHTMLFile