Build New HTML Documents

PHP Modules Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Examples

∟Build New HTML Documents

This section provides a tutorial example on how to create an HTML document using methods provided from the DOM extension.

DOMDocument objects can also be created from scratch instead of parsing an HTML document text string. This can be easily done by using the following methods:

$doc = new DOMDocument(): Creates an new and empty DOM object.
$element = $doc->createElement(): Creates a new DOMElement object.
$text = $doc->createTextNode(): Creates a new DOMText object.
$node->appendChild(): Inserts a child node into the current node.
$element->setAttribute(): Adds new attribute into an element.
$doc->saveHTML(): Dumps this DOMDocument object an HTML document string.

The following program shows how to create a simple HTML document with these methods:

<?php
#  Create-HTML-DOM-Document.php
#- Copyright 2009 (c) HerongYang.com. All Rights Reserved.

  $file = $argv[1];

  $doc = new DOMDocument();
  createHTML($doc);
  $html = $doc->saveHTML();
  file_put_contents($file, $html);

function createHTML($doc) {

  $doc->appendChild($html);

  $body = $doc->createElement("body");
  $html->appendChild($body);

  $p = $doc->createElement("p");
  $body->appendChild($p);

  $text = $doc->createTextNode("Hello World!");
  $p->appendChild($text);

  $body->setAttribute("bgcolor", "#ddddff");
}
?>

Now run the PHP script. You should get a simple HTML document as shown below.

herong> php Create-HTML-DOM-Document.php Hello.html

herong> type Hello.html
<html><body bgcolor="#ddddff"><p>Hello World!</p></body></html>

Table of Contents

About This Book

Introduction and Installation of PHP

Managing PHP Engine and Modules on macOS

Managing PHP Engine and Modules on CentOS

cURL Module - Client for URL

►DOM Module - Parsing HTML Documents

DOM (Document Object Model) Module

Parse and Traverse HTML Documents

►Build New HTML Documents

Load HTML Documents with LIBXML_NOBLANKS

Remove Whitespaces in HTML Documents

DOCTYPE Element in HTML Documents

Remove Dummy Elements in HTML Documents

Install DOM Extension on CentOS

GD Module - Manipulating Images and Pictures

MySQLi Module - Accessing MySQL Server

OpenSSL Module - Cryptography and SSL/TLS Toolkit

PCRE Module - Perl Compatible Regular Expressions

SOAP Module - Creating and Calling Web Services

SOAP Module - Server Functions and Examples

Zip Module - Managing ZIP Archive Files

References

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