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<h1 class="refname">DOMDocument::getElementsByTagName</h1>
<p class="verinfo">(PHP 5)</p><p class="refpurpose"><span class="refname">DOMDocument::getElementsByTagName</span> — <span class="dc-title">Searches for all elements with given local tag name</span></p>
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<h3 class="title">Description</h3>
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<span class="modifier">public</span> <span class="type"><a href="class.domnodelist.html" class="type DOMNodeList">DOMNodeList</a></span> <span class="methodname"><strong>DOMDocument::getElementsByTagName</strong></span>
( <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">string</span> <code class="parameter">$name</code></span>
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<p class="para rdfs-comment">
This function returns a new instance of class
<a href="class.domnodelist.html" class="classname">DOMNodeList</a> containing all the elements with a given
local tag name.
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<div class="refsect1 parameters" id="refsect1-domdocument.getelementsbytagname-parameters">
<h3 class="title">Parameters</h3>
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<span class="term"><em><code class="parameter">name</code></em></span>
<dd>
<p class="para">
The local name (without namespace) of the tag to match on. The special value <em>*</em>
matches all tags.
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<div class="refsect1 returnvalues" id="refsect1-domdocument.getelementsbytagname-returnvalues">
<h3 class="title">Return Values</h3>
<p class="para">
A new <a href="class.domnodelist.html" class="classname">DOMNodeList</a> object containing all the matched
elements.
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<div class="refsect1 examples" id="refsect1-domdocument.getelementsbytagname-examples">
<h3 class="title">Examples</h3>
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<div class="example" id="domdocument.getelementsbytagname.example.basic">
<p><strong>Example #1 Basic Usage Example</strong></p>
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<div class="phpcode"><code><span style="color: #000000">
<span style="color: #0000BB"><?php<br />$xml </span><span style="color: #007700">= <<< XML<br /></span><span style="color: #DD0000"><?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><br /><books><br /> <book>Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture</book><br /> <book>Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Software Design</book><br /> <book>Clean Code</book><br /></books><br /></span><span style="color: #007700">XML;<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$dom </span><span style="color: #007700">= new </span><span style="color: #0000BB">DOMDocument</span><span style="color: #007700">;<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$dom</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">loadXML</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$xml</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$books </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$dom</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">getElementsByTagName</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'book'</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br />foreach (</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$books </span><span style="color: #007700">as </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$book</span><span style="color: #007700">) {<br /> echo </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$book</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">nodeValue</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #0000BB">PHP_EOL</span><span style="color: #007700">;<br />}<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">?></span>
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</code></div>
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<div class="example-contents"><p>The above example will output:</p></div>
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<div class="cdata"><pre>
Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture
Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Software Design
Clean Code
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<div class="refsect1 seealso" id="refsect1-domdocument.getelementsbytagname-seealso">
<h3 class="title">See Also</h3>
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<li class="member"> <span class="methodname"><a href="domdocument.getelementsbytagnamens.html" class="methodname" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">DOMDocument::getElementsByTagNameNS()</a> - Searches for all elements with given tag name in specified namespace</span></li>
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