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DOMNode::getLineNo

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(PHP 5 >= 5.3.0, PHP 7, PHP 8)

Get line number for a node

Description

DOMNode::getLineNo(): int

Gets line number for where the node was defined at parse time.

Parameters Parameters

Return Values

Returns the line number where the node was defined at parse time. If the node was created manually, the return value will be 0.

Examples

DOMNode::getLineNo example

php
<?php
// XML dump for below example
$xml = <<<XML
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<root>
    <node />
</root>
XML;

// Create a new DOMDocument instance
$dom = new DOMDocument;

// Load the XML
$dom->loadXML($xml);

// Print where the line where the 'node' element was defined in
printf('The <node> tag is defined on line %d', $dom->getElementsByTagName('node')->item(0)->getLineNo());
?>

The above example will output:

output
The <node> tag is defined on line 3

Source: reference/dom/domnode/getlineno.xml · from the official PHP manual (php/doc-en)