Question

I’d like to search for nodes with the same node name in a SimpleXML Object no matter how deep they are nested and create an instance of them as an array.

In the HTML DOM I can do that with JavaScript by using getElementsByTagName(). Is there a way to do that in PHP as well?

Answer 1

Yes use xpath

$xml->xpath(‘//div’);

Here $xml is your SimpleXML object.

In this example you will get array of all ‘div’ elements