Question

$new = $doc->createElement("Cars");

to open an element how would I close this element?

and if i have a text box

<input type="text" name="toCity">

how can i write what the user puts in the textbox as an element?

Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

This line:

$new = $doc->createElement("Cars");

don’t create just an open tag but the whole element. This means that if you don’t append elements to Cars, it will be an empty tag which is like:

<cars />

otherwise, you can append elements using the appendChild() method and it will look like:

<cars>
   // other elements here
</cars>

Anyway to add a text in a textarea you can use this code:

$doc = new DOMDocument();
$doc->formatOutput=true;
$textarea = $doc->createElement("textarea");
$text = $doc->createTextNode("The text I like");
$textarea->appendChild($text);
$doc->appendChild($textarea);