What is the best practice for passing a DOM object between PHP pages?

When passing a DOM object between PHP pages, it is best to serialize the object into a string using a method like `serialize()` before passing it as a query parameter in the URL or storing it in a session variable. On the receiving page, you can then unserialize the string back into a DOM object using `unserialize()`. 

// Page 1 - Serialize the DOM object and pass it as a query parameter
$domObject = new DOMDocument();
$serializedDom = serialize($domObject);
header("Location: page2.php?serializedDom=" . urlencode($serializedDom));
exit;

// Page 2 - Retrieve the serialized DOM object and unserialize it
$serializedDom = urldecode($_GET['serializedDom']);
$domObject = unserialize($serializedDom);

Keywords

DOM object PHP pages serialization session variables data transfer

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