Php/docs/domdocument.load
DOMDocument::load
(PHP 5, PHP 7)
DOMDocument::load — Load XML from a file
Description
public DOMDocument::load
( string $filename
[, int $options = 0
] ) : mixed
Loads an XML document from a file.
Warning Unix style paths with forward slashes can cause significant performance degradation on Windows systems; be sure to call realpath() in such a case.
Parameters
filename- The path to the XML document.
options- Bitwise
ORof the libxml option constants.
Return Values
Returns TRUE on success or FALSE on failure. If called statically, returns a
DOMDocument or FALSE on failure.
Errors/Exceptions
If an empty string is passed as the filename
or an empty file is named, a warning will be generated. This warning
is not generated by libxml and cannot be handled using libxml's error
handling functions.
This method may be called statically, but will issue an E_STRICT error.
Examples
Example #1 Creating a Document
<?php$doc = new DOMDocument();$doc->load('book.xml');echo $doc->saveXML();?>
See Also
- DOMDocument::loadXML() - Load XML from a string
- DOMDocument::save() - Dumps the internal XML tree back into a file
- DOMDocument::saveXML() - Dumps the internal XML tree back into a string
