PHP - How To Set Innerhtml Of Domnode?

It has been ten years since I last wrote any code. I am trying to use PHP to write into a HTML element. I know JavaScript has the innerHTML function but I cannot seem to find any equivalent PHP function. My questions are

1) Is there an equivalent PHP function to innerHTML?

If not

2) Is there an intelligent method of using PHP fire JavaScript innerHTML

Why?

I want to get data from MySQL DB using PHP and print one record at a time to the webpage. I will be using a <div> tag as the data will be longer then one line so I do not want to use a span tag. I would like to force line breaks therefore I am using CSS with 'display:block;' I have not found a way to print the data from MySQL

Hi,
It appears I ran into the dreaded IE <select> issue with innerhtml.  I have looked at multiple solutions but alas I reach out for help!
The code works beautifully in Safari and Firefox but fails in IE  by simply loading blanks when AJAX is called.
I read up on microsoft.com a DIV may work outside the <select>.  But I must be messing something up.
Thanks for your puzzle solving help!

Code:

AJAX:
xmlHttp.onreadystatechange=function(){
       if(xmlHttp.readyState==4) {
         var temp=(xmlHttp.responseText);
         document.getElementById("option").innerHTML=temp;   
            }
   }
   var queryString = "?page=" + page;                                
   xmlHttp.open("GET","AJAX_page.php" + queryString,true);
   xmlHttp.send(null);

PHP:
<?php
echo "<form action='next.php' method='POST'>";
echo "<select name='id' id='option'><option value=0>Option_0/option>";
{
echo "<option value ='$id'>$choice</option>";
}
echo "</select>";
echo "<input type='submit' value='Submit'></form>";                  
?>

Hello,

i am trying to pull the innerHTML out of this:

Code: [Select]
<a href="(.*?)">(.*?)</a>
here is what I have:

Code: [Select]
<?php

$html = file_get_contents("http://www.businessinvestingsource.com/blcheck2.html");
preg_match_all('/<a href="(.*?)">(.*?)<\/a>/', $html, $links, PREG_SET_ORDER);

foreach ($links as $link) {
    $linkto = $link[1];
$anchor = $link[0];

echo "<b>Link:</b> ".$linkto."<br /><b>Anchor:</b> ".$anchor."<br /><br /> ";
}

?>
Now this code works but the innerHTML is coming out as a link I want it to come out as plaintext you can view he http://businessinvestingsource.com/anchorcheck2.php

Can anyone help?

Thank you.

what is the best way yo do this?

Code: [Select]
<b><font color=green>Get me out please </font> . </b>
thanks in  advance