<?php
$str = '<div class="address_row">
  <span class="address1">239 House</span>
  <span class="address2">Street South</span>
</div>';
 
$a = new DOMDocument;
$a->loadHTML($str);
 
$b = new DomXPath($a);//set DOM from XPath
 
$address1 = trim($b->query('//*[@class="address1"]')->item(0)->nodeValue);//Get Span=address1
$address2 = trim($b->query('//*[@class="address2"]')->item(0)->nodeValue);//Get Span=address2
 
//show variables
echo 'address2: ', $address1;
echo PHP_EOL;
echo 'address2: ', $address2;

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