How to get the html inside a $node rather than just the $nodeValue [duplicate]

Answer 1

You have to make an undocumented call on the node.

$node->c14n() Will give you the HTML contained in $node.

Crazy right? I lost some hair over that one.

http://php.net/manual/en/class.domnode.php#88441

Update

This will modify the html to conform to strict HTML. It is better to use

$html = $Node->ownerDocument->saveHTML( $Node );

Instead.

Answer 2

You'd want what amounts to 'innerHTML', which PHP's dom doesn't directly support. One workaround for it is here in the PHP docs.

Another option is to take the $node you've found, insert it as the top-level element of a new DOM document, and then call saveHTML() on that new document.