Parse span class text with DOM PHP - php

Question

I've been having an issue trying to parse text in a span class with DOM. Here is my code example.
$remote = "http://website.com/";
$doc = new DOMDocument();
#$doc->loadHTMLFile($remote);
$xpath = new DOMXpath($doc);
$node = $xpath->query('//span[#class="user"]');
echo $node;
and this returns the following error -> "Catchable fatal error: Object of class DOMNodeList could not be converted to string". I am so lost I NEED HELP!!!
What I am trying to do is parse the user name between this span tag.
<span class="user">bballgod093</span>
Here is the full source from the remote website.
<div id="randomwinner">
<div id="rndmLeftCont">
<h2 id="rndmTitle">Hourly Random <span>Winner</span></h2>
</div>
<div id="rndmRightCont">
<div id="rndmClaimImg">
<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="200">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td align="right" valign="middle">
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
<div id="rndmCaimTop">
<span class="user">bballgod093</span>You've won 1000 SB</div>
<div id="rndmCaimBottom">
<a id="rndmCaimBtn" class="btn1 btn2" href="/?cmd=cp-claim-random" rel="nofollow">Claim Bucks</a>
</div>
</div>
<div class="clear"></div>
</div>

Answer 1

This call
$node = $xpath->query('//span[#class="user"]');
does not return a string, but a DOMNodeList.
You can use this list somewhat like array (using $node->length for the number of elements and $node->item(0) to get the first element) to get DOMNode objects. Each of these objects has a nodeValue property which is a string.
So you would do something like
$node = $xpath->query('//span[#class="user"]');
if($node->length != 1) {
// error?
}
echo $node->item(0)->nodeValue;
Of course, changing the variable name for $node to something more appropriate would be nice.