Question

Maybe I am missing something… but the DOM Object is empty in this code:

$input = file_get_contents('http://www.google.com/');
$doc = new DOMDocument();
@$doc->loadHTML($input); //supress errors on invalid html!
var_dump($doc);
die();

I really don’t know what could be wrong with that code. I have verified that $input is actually filled with the html contents of the web page.

The output is:
object(DOMDocument)#3 (0) { }

I don’t understand why…

Answer 1

This is expected behaviour. To see the HTML, use DOMDocument::saveHTML() (or saveXML()).