PHP DOMDocument innerText

Question

How would I go about adding text into an XML element? For example:

<videoTitle>I want to add text here</videoTitle>

I have created the DOMDocument, and begun adding the elements. Here is the element that I need to add the text to.

$title = $vitals->appendChild($X->createElement("title"));

lonesomeday · Accepted Answer · 2011-05-23 23:28:27Z

4

$text = $X->createTextNode('Some text here');
$title->appendChild($text);

Alternatively, you can use the shortcut syntax of DOMNode::$nodeValue:

$title->nodeValue = 'Some text here';

You have to remember with this technique that nodeValue sets the text content, not the XML content. Tags are escaped, not parsed.

answered May 23, 2011 at 22:54

lonesomeday

239k54 gold badges330 silver badges329 bronze badges

Sign up to request clarification or add additional context in comments.

2 Comments

Hello, great, thanks. BTW, is there some way in PHP to automatically add <![CDATA[]]> tags?

@Lee No problem. Have a look at DOMDocument::createCDATASection.