Get contents of BODY without DOCTYPE, HTML, HEAD and BODY tags

Question

What I am trying to do is include an HTML file within a PHP system (not a problem) but that HTML file also needs to be usable on its own, for various reasons, so I need to know

Answer 1

Use DOMDocument to keep what you need rather than strip what you don't need (PHP >= 5.3.6)

$d = new DOMDocument;
$d->loadHTMLFile($fileLocation);
$body = $d->getElementsByTagName('body')->item(0);
// perform innerhtml on $body by enumerating child nodes 
// and saving them individually
foreach ($body->childNodes as $childNode) {
  echo $d->saveHTML($childNode);
}