Fatal error: Call to undefined function SimpleXMLElement() Help

[fubowl]

Using the script located here: http://www.phpfreaks.com/tutorial/handling-xml-data

 

I receive the following error: Fatal error: Call to undefined function SimpleXMLElement() in C:\...\xml.php on line 7

 

xml.php:

<?php
// Passing the XML
$data = file_get_contents("http://".$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'].dirname($_SERVER['PHP_SELF'])."/album_output.php"); //loads fine

$books = SimpleXMLElement($data);

foreach($books as $book) // loop through our books
{
echo <<<EOF
<tr>
	<td>{$book->url}</td>
	<td>{$book->description}</td>
	<td>{$book->filename}</td>
</tr>

EOF;
}
?>

 

Running WAMPServer with php 5.3.0

 

phpinfo(); says:

 

Simplexml support enabled

Revision $Revision: 1.151.2.22.2.35.2.32 $

Schema support enabled

 

However, unable to find an extension for simplexml inside php.ini or httpd.conf (if it's even supposed to be in there)

 

Any help would be appreciated.

 

[fubowl]

Well, since I received no answers, I found an alternative solution.

 

Using DOM method to access XML file:

 

  // DOMElement->getElementsByTagName() -- Gets elements by tagname
  // nodeValue : The value of this node, depending on its type.
  // Load XML File. You can use loadXML if you wish to load XML data from a string

  $objDOM = new DOMDocument();
  $objDOM->load("test.xml"); //make sure path is correct


  $note = $objDOM->getElementsByTagName("thumbnail");
  // for each note tag, parse the document and get values for
  // tasks and details tag.

  foreach( $note as $value )
  {
    $tasks = $value->getElementsByTagName("filename");
    $task  = $tasks->item(0)->nodeValue;

    $details = $value->getElementsByTagName("url");
    $detail  = $details->item(0)->nodeValue;

    echo "$task :: $detail <br>";
  }

 

where test.xml:

 

<thumbnails>
<thumbnail>
	<filename>http://thumb1</filename>
	<url>Set 1 URL</url>
	<description>Album 1</description>
</thumbnail>
<thumbnail>
	<filename>http://thumb2</filename>
	<url>Set 2 URL</url>
	<description>Album 2</description>
</thumbnail>
<thumbnail>
	<filename>http://thumb3</filename>
	<url>Set 3 URL</url>
	<description>Album 3</description>
</thumbnail>
<thumbnail>
	<filename>http://thumb4</filename>
	<url>Set 4 URL1</url>
	<description>Album 4</description>
</thumbnail>
</thumbnails>

 

or to get xml attribute:

 

// example on using the 'getAttribute()' method

$dom=new DOMDocument();

$dom->load('test2.xml');

$headlines=$dom->getElementsByTagName('thumbnail');

foreach($headlines as $headline){

echo 'ID attribute of current node is the following: '.$headline->getAttribute('filename').'<br />';

}

 

where test2.xml:

 

<thumbnails>
<thumbnail filename="http://thumb1" url="72157620019981688" description="Cat 1"/>
<thumbnail filename="http://thumb2" url="72157619839911144" description="Cat 2"/>
<thumbnail filename="http://thumb3" url="72157619840761942" description="Cat 3"/>
<thumbnail filename="http://thumb4" url="72157619935624301" description="Cat 4"/>
</thumbnails>

[DarthCoder]

I was having the same issue, but realized that SimpleXMLElement was an object not a Function.

 

The correct syntax should have been:  $books = new SimpleXMLElement($data);

 

Cheers