How to convert DOMNodeList object into array

Question

I have this code:

     $dom = new DOMDocument();
     $dom->load(\'file.xml\');
     $names = $dom->getElementsByTagName(\'name\');

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Answer 1

Just iterate trough the elements and put them into an array:

$names_array = array();
foreach ($names as $name) {
    $names_array[] = $name; // this is a DOMNode instance
    // you might want to have the textContent of them like this
    $names_array[] = $name->textContent;
}

This way they still will be DOMNode instances, you might want to get their textContent property.