DOMDocument::save

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DOMDocument::save — Dumps the internal XML tree back into a file

Description

int DOMDocument::save ( string $filename [, int $options ] )

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.

ChangeLog

Version Description

5.1.0 Added the options parameter

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



?>