SimpleXMLElement->__construct

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SimpleXMLElement->__construct — Creates a new SimpleXMLElement object

SimpleXMLElement

__construct ( string $data [, int $options [, bool $data_is_url [, string $ns [, bool $is_prefix ]]]] )

Creates a new SimpleXMLElement object.

data: A well-formed XML string or the path or URL to an XML document if data_is_url is TRUE.
options: Optionally used to specify additional Libxml parameters.
data_is_url: By default, data_is_url is FALSE. Use TRUE to specify that data is a path or URL to an XML document instead of string data.
ns
is_prefix

Returns a SimpleXMLElement object representing data .

Produces an E_WARNING error message for each error found in the XML data and throws an exception if errors were detected.

Example #1 Create a SimpleXMLElement object


<?php

include 'example.php';

$sxe = new SimpleXMLElement($xmlstr);
echo $sxe->movie[0]->title;

?>

Example #2 Create a SimpleXMLElement object from a URL


<?php

$sxe = new SimpleXMLElement('http://example.org/document.xml', NULL, TRUE);
echo $sxe->asXML();

?>