PHP DOM Builder is unveiled in second revision

In 2014 year PHP DOM Builder library was unveiled at the first time within the framework of Baigudin Software project. Two years have been left after that moment and today we are glad to offer the second generation that is PHP DOM Builder Revision 2.

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DOM tree traversal

In previous article, we have created a basic HTML document. Actually, it was only a cover for future events. Let's try to add something more than we have. For example, we will output "Hello world" and add "PHP DOM Builder test page" title.

<?php
use DomBuilder\Element as Element;
// Create document
$document = Element::create()
  ->insert('html')
  ->insert('head')
  ->after('body')
  ->root();
// Look for BODY tag in document
$p = $document->child()->child()->next()->insert('p')->html('Hello world');
// Look for HEAD tag relatively from created P teg
$p->parent()->prev()->insert('title')->html('PHP DOM Builder test page');
// Output document
echo Element::getDocument($document);
?>

The result of this example is this document page:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
  <head>
    <title>PHP DOM Builder test page</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <p>
      Hello world
    </p>
  </body>
</html>

That tree traversal technique is more efficient, but it is not useful some times. Other techniques for selecting elements, we will discuss in next articles .

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