DOMNode to DOMElement in php

Question

I want to convert a DOMNode object from a call to getElementsByTagName() to a DOMElement in order to access methods like getElements

Answer 1

I know this is mostly an annoying IDE problem.

The reason is $DOMNodeList->item(0) witch returns a DOMNode ( or at least the IDE thinks so ).

To fix this you will have to Extract out the $DOMDocument->getElementsByTagName( $tagName )->item($index) into a method of its own. In the DOCBlock you set the @return statement to DOMElement witch fixes the inspection problem.

This Works at least in PHPStorm.