Question

How would I go about adding text into an XML element? For example:

<videoTitle>I want to add text here</videoTitle>

I have created the DOMDocument, and begun adding the elements. Here is the element that I need to add the text to.

$title = $vitals->appendChild($X->createElement("title"));

Answer 1

You need to use DOMDocument::createTextNode

$text = $X->createTextNode('Some text here');
$title->appendChild($text);

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Alternatively, you can use the shortcut syntax of DOMNode::$nodeValue:

$title->nodeValue = 'Some text here';

You have to remember with this technique that nodeValue sets the text content, not the XML content. Tags are escaped, not parsed.