remove is failing with not found exception.
PHP Fatal error: Uncaught DOMException: Not Found Error
$document = new \DOMDocument();
$raw = '
some text
<a href="sad" sometag="true">linkkkk</a>
more text
';
$document->loadHTML($raw);
$links = $document->getElementsByTagName('a');
$a = $links->item(0);
$document->removeChild($a);
You could remove it from the parentNode from $a
$document = new \DOMDocument();
$raw = '
some text
<a href="sad" sometag="true">linkkkk</a>
more text
';
$document->loadHTML($raw);
$links = $document->getElementsByTagName('a');
$a = $links->item(0);
$a->parentNode->removeChild($a);
getElementsByTagName() returns a list of any descendant element node a. So $links is not the parent node.
With PHP > 8.0 you can use the method DOMNode::remove():
$links = $document->getElementsByTagName('a');
$a = $links->item(0);
$a->remove();
Or use the parentNode property:
$links = $document->getElementsByTagName('a');
$a = $links->item(0);
$a->parentNode->removeChild($a);
