DOMDocument::loadHTML
<?php
// try this html listing example for all nodes / includes a few getElementsByTagName options:
$file = $DOCUMENT_ROOT. "test.html";
$doc = new DOMDocument();
$doc->loadHTMLFile($file);
// example 1:
$elements = $doc->getElementsByTagName('*');
// example 2:
$elements = $doc->getElementsByTagName('html');
// example 3:
//$elements = $doc->getElementsByTagName('body');
// example 4:
//$elements = $doc->getElementsByTagName('table');
// example 5:
//$elements = $doc->getElementsByTagName('div');
if (!is_null($elements)) {
foreach ($elements as $element) {
echo "<br/>". $element->nodeName. ": ";
$nodes = $element->childNodes;
foreach ($nodes as $node) {
echo $node->nodeValue. "\n";
}
}
}
?>
DOMDocument::loadHTMLFile
(PHP 5)
DOMDocument::loadHTMLFile — Load HTML from a file
Description
public bool DOMDocument::loadHTMLFile
( string
$filename
[, int $options = 0
] )
The function parses the HTML document in the file named
filename. Unlike loading XML, HTML does not have
to be well-formed to load.
Parameters
-
filename -
The path to the HTML file.
-
options -
Since PHP 5.1.0 and Libxml 2.6.0, you may also use the
optionsparameter to specify additional Libxml parameters.
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.
While malformed HTML should load successfully, this function may generate E_WARNING errors when it encounters bad markup. libxml's error handling functions may be used to handle these errors.
Examples
Example #1 Creating a Document
<?php
$doc = new DOMDocument();
$doc->loadHTMLFile("filename.html");
echo $doc->saveHTML();
?>
Changelog
| Version | Description |
|---|---|
| 5.1.0 |
Added options parameter.
|
See Also
- DOMDocument::loadHTML() - Load HTML from a string
- DOMDocument::saveHTML() - Dumps the internal document into a string using HTML formatting
- DOMDocument::saveHTMLFile() - Dumps the internal document into a file using HTML formatting
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User Contributed Notes
DOMDocument::loadHTMLFile - [5 notes]
Mark Omohundro, ajamyajax dot com ¶
4 years ago
andy at carobert dot com ¶
8 years ago
This puts the HTML into a DOM object which can be parsed by individual tags, attributes, etc.. Here is an example of getting all the 'href' attributes and corresponding node values out of the 'a' tag. Very cool....
<?php
$myhtml = <<<EOF
<html>
<head>
<title>My Page</title>
</head>
<body>
<p><a href="/mypage1">Hello World!</a></p>
<p><a href="/mypage2">Another Hello World!</a></p>
</body>
</html>
EOF;
$doc = new DOMDocument();
$doc->loadHTML($myhtml);
$tags = $doc->getElementsByTagName('a');
foreach ($tags as $tag) {
echo $tag->getAttribute('href').' | '.$tag->nodeValue."\n";
}
?>
This should output:
/mypage1 | Hello World!
/mypage2 | Another Hello World!
gzech at SPAMFILTER dot eso dot org ¶
6 years ago
If you want to suppress output warnings from loadHTMLFile($url), put an @ sign in front. This even works in:
<?php
$load = @$dom->loadHTMLFile($url);
?>
Lachlan Hunt ¶
7 years ago
Andy, the code you gave should not give that result. In your code, $tag is an <a> element and the nodeValue of elements is null, according to the DOM2 spec. You need to get at the text node first, before getting the node value.
<?
...
foreach ($tags as $tag) {
echo $tag->getAttribute('href').' | '.$tag->childNodes->item(0)->nodeValue."\n";
}
?>
This should output:
/mypage1 | Hello World!
/mypage2 | Another Hello World!
bens at effortlessis dot com ¶
8 years ago
Note that this function doesn't parse the individual tags WITHIN the html file - it's all loaded as a "black box", and you end up with an XML widget that comprises nothing but the complete chunk of HTML.
I was hoping it would function as a sort of HTML-validator/parser, but that doesn't seem to be the case.