PHP Manual: Parses an HTML document from a string

Description

public static Dom\HTMLDocument Dom\HTMLDocument::createFromString(string $source, int $options = 0, stringnull $overrideEncoding = null)

Parses an HTML document from a string, according to the living standard.

Parameters

source: The string containing the HTML to parse.
options: Bitwise OR of the libxml option constants.
It is also possible to pass Dom\HTML_NO_DEFAULT_NS to disable the use of the HTML namespace and the template element. This should only be used if the implications are properly understood.
overrideEncoding: The encoding that the document was created in. If not provided, it will attempt to determine the encoding that is most likely used.

Return Values

The parsed document as an Dom\HTMLDocument instance.

Errors/Exceptions

Throws a ValueError if options contains an invalid option.
Throws a ValueError if overrideEncoding is an unknown encoding.

Examples

Example #1 Dom\HTMLDocument::createFromString example

Parses a sample document.

<?php
$dom = Dom\HTMLDocument::createFromString(<<<'HTML'
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
   <p>Hello, world!</p>
</body>
</html>
HTML);
echo $dom->saveHtml();
?>

The above example will output:

<!DOCTYPE html><html><head></head><body>
    <p>Hello, world!</p>

</body></html>

Notes

Note: Whitespace in the html and head tags is not considered significant and may lose formatting.

Dom\HTMLDocument::createFromString