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<h1 class="refname">DOMDocument::saveHTML</h1>
<p class="verinfo">(PHP 5, PHP 7)</p><p class="refpurpose"><span class="refname">DOMDocument::saveHTML</span> — <span class="dc-title">
Dumps the internal document into a string using HTML formatting
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<h3 class="title">Description</h3>
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<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">$node</code><span class="initializer"> = NULL</span></span>
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Creates an HTML document from the DOM representation. This function is usually
called after building a new dom document from scratch as in the example below.
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<div class="refsect1 parameters" id="refsect1-domdocument.savehtml-parameters">
<h3 class="title">Parameters</h3>
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<code class="parameter">node</code></dt>
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Optional parameter to output a subset of the document.
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<h3 class="title">Return Values</h3>
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Returns the HTML, or <strong><code>FALSE</code></strong> if an error occurred.
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<div class="refsect1 changelog" id="refsect1-domdocument.savehtml-changelog">
<h3 class="title">Changelog</h3>
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<th>Version</th>
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<td>5.3.6</td>
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The <code class="parameter">node</code> parameter was added.
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<div class="refsect1 examples" id="refsect1-domdocument.savehtml-examples">
<h3 class="title">Examples</h3>
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<p><strong>Example #1 Saving a HTML tree into a string</strong></p>
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<div class="phpcode"><code><span style="color: #000000">
<span style="color: #0000BB"><?php<br /><br />$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>
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<h3 class="title">See Also</h3>
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<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>
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