The Document Object Model (DOM) is an object oriented interface for interacting with HTML webpages and other XML documents. It's been made extremely popular by its use in JavaScript within the browser.

The DOM represents a document with a logical tree. Each branch of the tree ends in a node, and each node contains objects. DOM methods allow programmatic access to the tree. With them, you can change the document's structure, style, or content.

This project provides access to a DOM within your PHP scripts on the server, for use with HTML or XML Documents, allowing developers to take advantage of the well known web standards and widely understood DOM technologies to produce dynamic pages alongside, or instead of, a template engine.

Navigate to a particular section of this guide using the menu, or read through each section by clicking through the links at the bottom of each page.

Sections of the guide:

• Introduction
  • What is DOM?
  • Using DOM in PHP
  • Classes that make up DOM
  • Simple example applications
• Working with DOM
  • Traversing the tree
  • DOM template elements
  • Using forms
  • Creating DOM elements
• JavaScript in the browser
  • Rendering pages on the server
  • Refreshing DOM with JavaScript
• Behind the scenes
  • Live properties
  • Using traits

Use Stack Overflow to get help with technical issues. Tag your question with php.gt and dom, and a developer will be alerted to provide you an answer as quick as possible.

Report bugs on the Github issue tracker.

If you are interested in contributing to this project, a concise overview of how to contribute to the project is available on the Contribution guide page.

• An introduction to the Document Object Model - general overview of DOM and outline of where this project fits.
• Using traits - how traits are utilised within the hierarchy.
• Live properties - to provide classes with live properties, DOM classes should use prop_* methods instead of using __get and __set.