<?php
$doc = new DOMDocument;
$doc->loadHTML("
<html>
<body>
<p><span>This is mytext :)</span></p>
<p><span>This is also MyText :)</span></p>
<p><span>MyText at the start :)</span></p>
<p><span>Not my text :(</span></p>
");
$xpath = new DOMXPath($doc);
// Allow calling the stripos() function in XPath
$xpath->registerNamespace("php", "http://php.net/xpath");
$xpath->registerPHPFunctions("stripos");
// Example: find <span> elements containing "MyText" (case-insensitive)
$nodeList = $xpath->query("//span[php:functionString('stripos', ., 'MyText')]");
foreach ($nodeList as $node) {
echo $doc->saveXML($node) . "\n";
}
<span>This is mytext :)</span>
<span>This is also MyText :)</span>
<span>MyText at the start :)</span>
Output for 8.3.5
Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'sodium.so' (tried: /usr/lib/php/8.3.5/modules/sodium.so (libsodium.so.23: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory), /usr/lib/php/8.3.5/modules/sodium.so.so (/usr/lib/php/8.3.5/modules/sodium.so.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)) in Unknown on line 0
<span>This is mytext :)</span>
<span>This is also MyText :)</span>
<span>MyText at the start :)</span>