original_string: function &getElement($element)
      {
          if (isset($this->_elementIndex[$element])) {
              return $this->_elements[$this->_elementIndex[$element]];
          } else {
              $error = self::raiseError(null, QUICKFORM_NONEXIST_ELEMENT, null, E_USER_WARNING, "Element '$element' does not exist in HTML_QuickForm::getElement()", 'HTML_QuickForm_Error', true);
              return $error;
          }
      }
code: function &getElement($element)
      {
          if (isset($this->_elementIndex[$element])) {
              return $this->_elements[$this->_elementIndex[$element]];
          } else {
              $error = self::raiseError(null, QUICKFORM_NONEXIST_ELEMENT, null, E_USER_WARNING, "Element '$element' does not exist in HTML_QuickForm::getElement()", 'HTML_QuickForm_Error', true);
              return $error;
          }
      }
code_tokens: function & getElement ( $ element ) { if ( isset ( $ this -> _elementIndex [ $ element ] ) ) { return $ this -> _elements [ $ this -> _elementIndex [ $ element ] ] ; } else { $ error = self :: raiseError ( null , QUICKFORM_NONEXIST_ELEMENT , null , E_USER_WARNING , "Element '$element' does not exist in HTML_QuickForm::getElement()" , 'HTML_QuickForm_Error' , true ) ; return $ error ; } }
docstring: Returns a reference to the element
  
  @param     string     $element    Element name
  @since     2.0
  @access    public
  @return    object     reference to element
  @throws    HTML_QuickForm_Error
docstring_tokens: Returns a reference to the element