<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <title>Dumps the internal document into a string using HTML formatting</title> </head> <body><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="domdocument.save.html">DOMDocument::save</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="domdocument.savehtmlfile.html">DOMDocument::saveHTMLFile</a></div> <div class="up"><a href="class.domdocument.html">DOMDocument</a></div> <div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div> </div><hr /><div id="domdocument.savehtml" class="refentry"> <div class="refnamediv"> <h1 class="refname">DOMDocument::saveHTML</h1> <p class="verinfo">(PHP 5)</p><p class="refpurpose"><span class="refname">DOMDocument::saveHTML</span> — <span class="dc-title"> Dumps the internal document into a string using HTML formatting </span></p> </div> <div class="refsect1 description" id="refsect1-domdocument.savehtml-description"> <h3 class="title">Description</h3> <div class="methodsynopsis dc-description"> <span class="modifier">public</span> <span class="type">string</span> <span class="methodname"><strong>DOMDocument::saveHTML</strong></span> ([ <span class="methodparam"><span class="type"><a href="class.domnode.html" class="type DOMNode">DOMNode</a></span> <code class="parameter">$node</code><span class="initializer"> = NULL</span></span> ] )</div> <p class="para rdfs-comment"> Creates an HTML document from the DOM representation. This function is usually called after building a new dom document from scratch as in the example below. </p> </div> <div class="refsect1 parameters" id="refsect1-domdocument.savehtml-parameters"> <h3 class="title">Parameters</h3> <p class="para"> <dl> <dt> <span class="term"><em><code class="parameter">node</code></em></span> <dd> <p class="para"> Optional parameter to output a subset of the document. </p> </dd> </dt> </dl> </p> </div> <div class="refsect1 returnvalues" id="refsect1-domdocument.savehtml-returnvalues"> <h3 class="title">Return Values</h3> <p class="para"> Returns the HTML, or <strong><code>FALSE</code></strong> if an error occurred. </p> </div> <div class="refsect1 changelog" id="refsect1-domdocument.savehtml-changelog"> <h3 class="title">Changelog</h3> <p class="para"> <table class="doctable informaltable"> <thead> <tr> <th>Version</th> <th>Description</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody class="tbody"> <tr> <td>5.3.6</td> <td> The <em><code class="parameter">node</code></em> parameter was added. </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </p> </div> <div class="refsect1 examples" id="refsect1-domdocument.savehtml-examples"> <h3 class="title">Examples</h3> <p class="para"> <div class="example" id="example-5415"> <p><strong>Example #1 Saving a HTML tree into a string</strong></p> <div class="example-contents"> <div class="phpcode"><code><span style="color: #000000"> <span style="color: #0000BB"><?php<br /><br />$doc </span><span style="color: #007700">= new </span><span style="color: #0000BB">DOMDocument</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'1.0'</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$root </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$doc</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">createElement</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'html'</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$root </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$doc</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">appendChild</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$root</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$head </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$doc</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">createElement</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'head'</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$head </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$root</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">appendChild</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$head</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$title </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$doc</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">createElement</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'title'</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$title </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$head</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">appendChild</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$title</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$text </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$doc</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">createTextNode</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'This is the title'</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$text </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$title</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">appendChild</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$text</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /><br />echo </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$doc</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">saveHTML</span><span style="color: #007700">();<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">?></span> </span> </code></div> </div> </div> </p> </div> <div class="refsect1 seealso" id="refsect1-domdocument.savehtml-seealso"> <h3 class="title">See Also</h3> <p class="para"> <ul class="simplelist"> <li class="member"> <span class="methodname"><a href="domdocument.savehtmlfile.html" class="methodname" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">DOMDocument::saveHTMLFile()</a> - Dumps the internal document into a file using HTML formatting</span></li> <li class="member"> <span class="methodname"><a href="domdocument.loadhtml.html" class="methodname" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">DOMDocument::loadHTML()</a> - Load HTML from a string</span></li> <li class="member"> <span class="methodname"><a href="domdocument.loadhtmlfile.html" class="methodname" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">DOMDocument::loadHTMLFile()</a> - Load HTML from a file</span></li> </ul> </p> </div> </div><hr /><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="domdocument.save.html">DOMDocument::save</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="domdocument.savehtmlfile.html">DOMDocument::saveHTMLFile</a></div> <div class="up"><a href="class.domdocument.html">DOMDocument</a></div> <div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div> </div></body></html>