Php/docs/domdocument.save
DOMDocument::save
(PHP 5, PHP 7)
DOMDocument::save — Dumps the internal XML tree back into a file
Description
public DOMDocument::save
( string $filename
[, int $options = 0
] ) : int
Creates an XML document from the DOM representation. This function is usually called after building a new dom document from scratch as in the example below.
Parameters
filename- The path to the saved XML document.
options- Additional Options. Currently only LIBXML_NOEMPTYTAG is supported.
Return Values
Returns the number of bytes written or FALSE if an error occurred.
Examples
Example #1 Saving a DOM tree into a file
<?php$doc = new DOMDocument('1.0');// we want a nice output$doc->formatOutput = true;$root = $doc->createElement('book');$root = $doc->appendChild($root);$title = $doc->createElement('title');$title = $root->appendChild($title);$text = $doc->createTextNode('This is the title');$text = $title->appendChild($text);echo 'Wrote: ' . $doc->save("/tmp/test.xml") . ' bytes'; // Wrote: 72 bytes?>
See Also
- DOMDocument::saveXML() - Dumps the internal XML tree back into a string
- DOMDocument::load() - Load XML from a file
- DOMDocument::loadXML() - Load XML from a string
