What are the recommended PHP functions for reading and manipulating HTML files?

When working with HTML files in PHP, the recommended functions for reading and manipulating them are file_get_contents() for reading the contents of the file into a string, and DOMDocument class for parsing and manipulating the HTML structure.

// Read the contents of an HTML file into a string
$html = file_get_contents('example.html');

// Create a DOMDocument object and load the HTML string
$dom = new DOMDocument();
$dom->loadHTML($html);

// Manipulate the HTML structure using DOMDocument methods
// For example, you can access and modify elements using getElementById(), getElementsByTagName(), etc.