DOMDocument::load

(PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)

DOMDocument::load — Load XML from a file

Description

public DOMDocument::load(string $filename, int $options = 0): bool

Loads an XML document from a file.

Warning

Unix style paths with forward slashes can cause significant performance degradation on Windows systems; be sure to call realpath() in such a case.

Parameters

filename

The path to the XML document.

options

Bitwise OR of the libxml option constants.

Return Values

Returns true on success or false on failure.

Errors/Exceptions

If an empty string is passed as the filename or an empty file is named, a warning will be generated. This warning is not generated by libxml and cannot be handled using libxml's error handling functions.

Changelog

VersionDescription
8.3.0This function now has a tentative bool return type.
8.0.0Calling this function statically will now throw an Error. Previously, an E_DEPRECATED was raised.

Examples

Example #1 Creating a Document

<?php
$doc = new DOMDocument();
$doc->load('examples/book.xml');
echo $doc->saveXML();
?>

See Also