Domnodelist changed from object to class when ported to laravel

I am encountering something pretty strange. I have a crawler that I am running locally when I var_dump an xpath result I will get:

object(DOMNodeList)#161 (1) {
  ["length"]=>
  int(4)
}

But when I var_dump the xpath result in when I ported to laravel as a helper class I will get:

class DOMNodeList#741 (1) {
  public $length =>
  int(4)
}

I have no idea why it suddenly changes since my code is exactly the same.

<?php

namespace App\Http\Utilities;

class Crawler {

    private $url;
    private $class;
    private $regex;
    private $htmlStack;
    // starting page
    private $pageNumber = 1;
    public $elementsArray;

    public function startCrawler($url, $class, $regex=null) {
        $this->url = $url;
        $this->class = $class;
        $this->regex = $regex;

        $this->curlGet($this->url);
    }

    // start the crawler
    private function curlGet($url) {
        $curl = curl_init();

        curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
        curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url);

        $this->htmlStack .= curl_exec($curl);

        $response = curl_getinfo($curl, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);

        // check for more pages
        $this->paginate($response);
    }

    // Keep finding more pages untill we get a 404
    private function paginate($response) {
        if($response === 200) {
            $this->pageNumber++;
            $url = $this->url . '?page=' . $this->pageNumber;

            $this->curlGet($url);
        } else {
            $this->CreateDomDocument();
        }
    }


    // Dive into a single products page
    private function curlGetDeep($link) {
        $curl = curl_init();

        curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
        curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $link);

        $product = curl_exec($curl);

        $dom = new \Domdocument();
        @$dom->loadHTML($product);

        $xpath = new \DomXpath($dom);

        // Find description
        $descriptions = $xpath->query('//div[contains(@class, "description")]');

        // Find Alcoholpercentage
        $abv = $xpath->query('//*[text()="Alcoholpercentage"]/following-sibling::p');

        var_dump($abv);

        foreach($descriptions as $description) {
            $results['description'] = $description->nodeValue;
            $results['abv'] = $abv->item(0)->nodeValue;

            return $results;
        }
    }


    // Render the data
    private function CreateDomDocument() {
        $dom = new \Domdocument();
        @$dom->loadHTML($this->htmlStack);

        $xpath = new \DomXpath($dom);

        // Find all the product blocks that contain beer attribute that we want to search for such as rating, title, price, etc.
        $elements = $xpath->query('//article[contains(@class, "' . $this->class . '")]');

        foreach($elements as $element) {
            // get the node value from the .title class (the title of the product)
            $title = $xpath->query('descendant::div[@class="title"]', $element);
            $title = $title->item(0)->nodeValue;

            // get the attribute value from the .link-overlay class (the actual link to the product)
            $link = $xpath->query('descendant::a[@class="link-overlay"]', $element);
            $link = $link->item(0)->getAttribute('href');
            $link = 'https://www.gall.nl' . $link;

            // get the image src value to rip the image from the site
            $image = $xpath->query('descendant::div[@class="image"]/node()/node()', $element);
            $image = $image->item(1)->getAttribute('src');

            // Dive in the link that a single product has
            $results = $this->curlGetDeep($link);

            // if a regex option has been supplied run it on the results
            if($this->regex) {
                $title = preg_replace($this->regex, '', $title);
            }

            // temp fix, results have unwanted whitespace before and after the string.
            $title = trim($title);
            $description = trim($results['description']);

            // remove the unwanted 6X 35x6(bulk beers) results with this regex
            if(!preg_match('/\dX(\d+)?/', $title)) {
                $this->elementsArray[] = [
                    'title' => $title,
                    'link' => $link,
                    'image' => $image,
                    'description' => $description,
                    'abv' => $results['abv']r
                ];
            }
        }

        echo json_encode(['beers' => $this->elementsArray]);
    }
}

I hope somebody can help me out, if you need more info please let me know. I am pretty baffled on why this happens.

via Chebli Mohamed