# DOMDocument->saveHTMLFile()

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DOMDocument->saveHTMLFile() — Dumps the internal document into a file using HTML formatting

### Description

DOMDocument
int saveHTMLFile ( string `$filename` )

Creates an HTML document from the DOM representation. This function is usually called after building a new dom document from scratch as in the example below.

### Parameters

`filename`

  The path to the saved HTML document.

### Return Values

Returns the number of bytes written or `FALSE` if an error occurred.

### Examples

Example#1 Saving a HTML tree into a file

`<?php
$doc = new DOMDocument('1.0');
// we want a nice output
$doc->formatOutput = true;
$root = $doc->createElement('html');
$root = $doc->appendChild($root);
$head = $doc->createElement('head');
$head = $root->appendChild($head);
$title = $doc->createElement('title');
$title = $head->appendChild($title);
$text = $doc->createTextNode('This is the title');
$text = $title->appendChild($text);
echo 'Wrote: ' . $doc->saveHTMLFile("/tmp/test.html") . ' bytes'; // Wrote: 129 bytes
?>`

### See Also

- DOMDocument->saveHTML()
- DOMDocument->loadHTML()
- DOMDocument->loadHTMLFile()