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I am using PHP's DOM object to create HTML pages for my website. This works great for my head, however since I will be entering a lot of HTML into the body (not via DOM), I would think I would need to use DOM->createElement($bodyHTML) to add my HTML from my site to the DOM object.
However DOM->createElement seems to parse all HTML entities so my end result ended up displaying the HTML on the page and not the actual renders HTML.
I am currently using a hack to get this to work,
$body = $this->DOM
->createComment('DOM Glitch--><body>'.$bodyHTML."</body><!--Woot");
Which puts all my site code in a comment, which I bypass athe comment and manually add the <body> tags.
Currently this method works, but I believe there should be a more proper way of doing this. Ideally something like DOM->createElement() that will not parse any of the string.
I also tried using DOM->createDocumentFragment() However it does not like some of the string so it would error and not work (Along with take up extra CPU power to re-parse the body's HTML).
So, my question is, is there a better way of doing this other than using DOM->createComment()?
You use the DOMDocumentFragment objec to insert arbitrary HTML chunks into another document.
$dom = new DOMDocument();
@$dom->loadHTML($some_html_document); // @ to suppress a bajillion parse errors
$frag = $dom->createDocumentFragment(); // create fragment
$frag->appendXML($some_other_html_snippet); // insert arbitary html into the fragment
$node = // some operations to find whatever node you want to insert the fragment into
$node->appendChild($frag); // stuff the fragment into the original tree
I FOUND THE SOLUTION but it's not a pure php solution, but works very well. A little hack for everybody who lost countless hours, like me, to fix this
$dom = new DomDocument;
// main object
$object = $dom->createElement('div');
// html attribute
$attr = $dom->createAttribute('value');
// ugly html string
$attr->value = "<div> this is a really html string ©</div><i></i> with all the © that XML hates!";
$object->appendChild($attr);
// jquery fix (or javascript as well)
$('div').html($(this).attr('value')); // and it works!
$('div').removeAttr('value'); // to clean-up
loadHTML works just fine.
<?php
$dom = new DOMDocument();
$dom->loadHTML("<font color='red'>Hey there mrlanrat!</font>");
echo $dom->saveHTML();
?>
which outputs Hey there mrlanrat! in red.
or
<?php
$dom = new DOMDocument();
$bodyHTML = "here is the body, a nice body I might add";
$dom->loadHTML("<body> " . $bodyHTML . " </body>");
// this would even work as well.
// $bodyHTML = "<body>here is the body, a nice body I might add</body>";
// $dom->loadHTML($bodyHTML);
echo $dom->saveHTML();
?>
Which outputs:
here is the body, a nice body I might add and inside of your HTML source code, its wrapped inside body tags.
I spent a lot of time working on Anthony Forloney's answer, But I cannot seem to get the html to append to the body without it erroring.
@Mark B: I have tried doing that, but as I said in the comments, it errored on my html.
I forgot to add the below, my solution:
I decided to make my html object much simpler and to allow me to do this by not using DOM and just use strings.
