DOMDocument::saveHTMLFile

(PHP 5)

DOMDocument::saveHTMLFile Dumps the internal document into a file using HTML formatting

Description

public int DOMDocument::saveHTMLFile ( string $filename )

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

filename

The path to the saved HTML document.

Return Values

Returns the number of bytes written or FALSE if an error occurred.

Examples

Example #1 Saving a HTML tree into a file

<?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

Коментарии

I foolishly assumed that this function was equivalent to
<?php
file_put_contents
($filename$document->saveHTML());
?>
but there are differences in the generated HTML:
<?php
$doc 
= new DOMDocument();
$doc->loadHTML(
   
'<html><head><title>Test</title></head><body></body></html>'
);
$doc->encoding 'iso-8859-1';

echo 
$doc->saveHTML();
#<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
#<html>
#<head><title>Test</title></head>
#<body></body>
#</html>

$doc->saveHTMLFile('output.html');
#<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
#<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"><title>Test</title></head><body></body></html>

?>
Note that saveHTMLFile() adds a UTF-8 meta tag despite the ISO-8859-1 document encoding.
2011-01-14 05:46:02
http://php5.kiev.ua/manual/ru/domdocument.savehtmlfile.html
Not mentioned in the documentation is the fact that using DOMDocument::saveHTMLFile() will automatically overwrite the contents if an existing file is used - with no notice, warning or error thrown.

Make sure you check the filename before using this function so that you don't accidentally overwrite important files.

Example:
<?php

$file 
fopen('test.html''w');
fwrite($file'this is some text');
fclose($file);

$doc = new DOMDocument();
$doc->formatOutput true;
$doc->loadHTML('<html><head><title>Test</title></head><body></body></html>');
$doc->saveHTMLFile('test.html');

// test.html
/*
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<title>Test</title>
</head>
<body></body>
</html>
*/

?>

If you're dynamically generating a series of pages using DOMDocument objects, make sure you are also dynamically generating the file or directory names using something that can't easily be confused for an existing file/folder, or check if the desired path already exists before saving so that you don't accidentally delete previous files.
2012-09-24 13:03:16
http://php5.kiev.ua/manual/ru/domdocument.savehtmlfile.html
saveHTMLFile() always saves the file in UTF-8. Even if the DOMDocument->encoding explicitly prescribe different from UTF-8 encoding. All "non-Latin" characters will be converted to HTML-entities. Tested in PHP 5.2.9-2 and PHP 5.2.17. Example:

<?php
$document
=new domDocument('1.0''WINDOWS-1251');
$document->loadHTML('<html><head><title>Russian language</title></head><body>Русский язык</body></html>');
$document->formatOutput=true;
$document->encoding='WINDOWS-1251';
echo 
"Записано байт. Recorded bytes: ".$document->saveHTMLFile('html.html');
?>

Method recorded file in UTF-8 encoding. The contents of the file html.html:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<title>Russian language</title>
</head>
<body>Ðóññêèé ÿçûê</body>
</html>
2013-07-27 19:15:50
http://php5.kiev.ua/manual/ru/domdocument.savehtmlfile.html

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