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Asked: 2026-05-18T04:29:57+00:00

I want to create a PHP program that could create a .php file that

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I want to create a PHP program that could create a .php file that could read this HTML file:

<html>
<head>
<title> Hello World! </title>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>

It will search the <head> and </head> TAGS incuding the tags in between, and transfer the selected tags to header.php

So, the header.php will have this:

<head>
<title> Hello World! </title>
</head>

Additional problem is, how to insert the PHP tag <?php in the beginning of the page and ?> in the last part of the PHP file.

I have done this code right here, but its not yet done and i doesn’t read a <head> tag.

<?php
firstIdentifier = '<head>';
$secondIdentifier = '</head>';
$currentContent = str_replace("\n", "", file_get_contents('sourcefile.txt'));
$pattern = '/('.$firstIdentifier.')(.+?)('.$secondIdentifier.')/'; 

//get all text between the two identifiers, and include the identifiers in the match result
preg_match_all($pattern, $currentContent , $matches);

//stick them together with space delimiter
$contentOfNewFile = implode(" ",$matches[0]);

//save to a new file
$newFile = fopen('destinationFile.txt','a');
fwrite($newFile, $contentOfNewFile);
?>

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  1. Editorial Team

    I think you’re doing it the hard way. Have you considered parsing HTML as XML using SimpleXML library? You could do that! Allow me to explain:

    Suppose you read your file into a string variable called $html_main, now consider this code:

    $dom = new DOMDocument("1.0", "UTF-8");
$dom->loadHTML($html_main);

$xml = simplexml_import_dom($dom);

    Using XPATH (//html/head) will give you the node, just need to call the function:

    $xpathObj = $xml->xpath('//html/head');

    Then you can manage your HTML code as a collection! I think that if you are planning doing some major parsing, then this might be a better way!

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