DOMDocument(); getElementById in PHP

Hi everyone...

I am trying to getElementById (like in javascript) but this time in PHP. But, I have a problem ...

<?PHP
//Add the content on the page
  $doc = new DOMDocument();
  $doc->validateOnParse = true;
  $doc->loadHTMLFile('/home/limebl5/public_html/ms/templates/' . $templateid . '/index.php');
  
  //echo innerHTML content of the area id (this is where I have a problem)
  echo $doc->getElementById('area');
?>

PHP:

the html document looks like this...

<div id="area">yeah this is the content that I want to show...</div>

 

<?php
$html = file_get_contents('/home/limebl5/public_html/ms/templates/' . $templateid . 'index.php');
$dom = new DOMDocument();
@$dom->loadHTML($html);
$div = $dom->getElementByID('area');
echo $div->firstChild->data; 
?>

PHP:

Should work, I think.

InnerHTML won't work because it's not actually part of the DOM, just a pseudo property added by browsers.

 

Thank you for the reply, buy it still does not work.I think I will need to find an alternative...

 

Try this...

<?PHP
//Add the content on the page
  $innerHTML = '';
  $doc = new DOMDocument();
  $doc->validateOnParse = true;
  $doc->loadHTMLFile('/home/limebl5/public_html/ms/templates/' . $templateid . '/index.php');
 
  $children = $doc->childNodes;
  foreach ($children as $child) {
    $tmp_doc = new DOMDocument();
    $tmp_doc->appendChild($tmp_doc->importNode($child,true));       
    $innerHTML .= $tmp_doc->saveHTML();
  }  

//echo innerHTML content of the area id (this is where I have a problem)
  echo $innerHTML;
?>

PHP:

 

Thank you antigravity for you're replay...

I tried you're code but it returns...

Catchable fatal error: Argument 1 passed to DOMNode::appendChild() must be an instance of DOMNode, boolean given in /home/limebl5/public_html/ms/view.php on line 132

Line 132 is: $tmp_doc->appendChild($tmp_doc->importNode($child,true));

My ultimate goal is to load a template, replace the ids with the users content and send it to the users computer.