trouble in removing the meta tag using php DOM api

Question

$html = new DOMDocument();
           $html->loadHTMLFile($filename);

           $meta = $html->getElementsByTagName(\"meta\");


           foreach($meta as $old         


        

Answer 1

When you use foreach to iterate over the DOMNodeList and remove an element, you are changing the DOMNodeList content, so nodes will be skipped. You have to iterate backwards:

$nodes = $dom->getElementsByTagName('meta');
for ($i = $nodes->length - 1; $i >= 0; $i--) {
    $nodes->item($i)->parentNode->removeChild($nodes->item($i));
}