How to save changed SimpleXML object back to file?

Question

So, I have this code that searches for a particular node in my XML file, unsets an existing node and inserts a brand new child node with the correct data. Is there a way of

Answer 1

If you want to save the same, you can use dom_import_simplexml to convert to a DomElement and save:

$dom = new DOMDocument('1.0');
$dom->preserveWhiteSpace = false;
$dom->formatOutput = true;
$dom->loadXML($simpleXml->asXML());
echo $dom->saveXML();