Save the internal XML tree back into a file in PHP

Description

The following code shows how to save the internal XML tree back into a file.

Example


//from   ww  w  .ja  v a 2  s  . c om
<?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("test.xml") . ' bytes';

?>

The code above generates the following result.





















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