how to fetch text nodes in DOM and PHP?

Question

I have the following code to retrieve all hyper links in an HTML document

and my question is how to retrieve the text nodes inside every anchor tag

(even if th

Answer 1

$anchor->textContent

A slightly more info here DOMNode->textContent

:D

Answer 2

Heres what you can do:

(string)$anchor->nodeValue;

As referenced in the DomDocument::DomNode page