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

Assuming you want the actual values and not to create an array of DOM nodes:

foreach($nodelist as $node) {
    $values[] = $node->nodeValue;
}