Expect or plan on developing modules which use the first if(preg_match("@.*()@", $article['content'], $matches)){ function get_img_tags($xpath, $query, $article) { $entries = $xpath->query("//div[@id='blarg']/div[last()]"); foreach ($entries as $entry) { $article['content'] = $this->get_img_tags($xpath, "//div[@id='comic']//img", $article.