PHP | DOMDocument getElementsByTagName() Function

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The DOMDocument::getElementsByTagName() function is an inbuilt function in PHP which is used to return a new instance of class DOMNodeList which contains all the elements of local tag name.

Syntax:

DOMNodeList DOMDocument::getElementsByTagName( string $name )

Parameters: This function accepts single parameter $name which holds the local tag name to match. The value * is used to match all tags.

Return Value: This function returns a new DOMNodeList object containing all the matched elements.

Below program illustrates the DOMDocument::getElementsByTagName() function in PHP:

Program:

<?php 
  
// Store the XML document to the variable 
$xml = <<< XML 
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> 
<organization> 
    <name>zambiatek</name> 
    <address>Noida India</address> 
    <contact> 
        <email>abc@zambiatek.com</email> 
        <mobile>+91-987654321</mobile> 
    </contact> 
</organization> 
XML; 
  
// Create new DOMDocument 
$dom = new DOMDocument; 
  
// Load the XML document 
$dom->loadXML($xml); 
  
// Use getElementsByTagName() function to search 
// all elements with given local tag name 
$org = $dom->getElementsByTagName('contact'); 
  
foreach ($org as $contact) { 
    echo $contact->nodeValue, PHP_EOL; 
} 
?> 