Is there a way to keep entities intact while parsing html with DomDocument?

Question

I have this function to ensure every img tag has absolute URL:

function absoluteSrc($html, $encoding = \'utf-8\')
{
    $dom = new DOMDocume         


        

Answer 1

An alternative solution is to use DOMDocument->saveHTMLFile() (which doesn't convert HTML entities) and read the contents of the saved file back into a string.

It's not super pretty, but it has the advantage of not having to manually find-and-replace entity codes yourself (twice) as per some other solutions proffered here.