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<div id="simplexmlelement.construct" class="refentry">
<div class="refnamediv">
<h1 class="refname">SimpleXMLElement::__construct</h1>
<p class="verinfo">(PHP 5 >= 5.0.1)</p><p class="refpurpose"><span class="refname">SimpleXMLElement::__construct</span> — <span class="dc-title">
Creates a new SimpleXMLElement object
</span></p>
</div>
<a name="simplexmlelement.construct.description"></a><div class="refsect1 description">
<h3 class="title">Description</h3>
<div class="classsynopsis">
<div class="ooclass"><a href="class.simplexmlelement.php" class="classname">SimpleXMLElement</a></div>
<div class="constructorsynopsis dc-description">
<span class="methodname"><b>__construct</b></span>
( <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">string</span> <tt class="parameter">$data</tt></span>
[, <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">int</span> <tt class="parameter">$options</tt></span>
[, <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">bool</span> <tt class="parameter">$data_is_url</tt></span>
[, <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">string</span> <tt class="parameter">$ns</tt></span>
[, <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">bool</span> <tt class="parameter">$is_prefix</tt></span>
]]]] )</div>
</div>
<p class="para">
Creates a new <a href="class.simplexmlelement.php" class="classname">SimpleXMLElement</a> object.
</p>
</div>
<a name="simplexmlelement.construct.parameters"></a><div class="refsect1 parameters">
<h3 class="title">Parameters</h3>
<p class="para">
</p><dl>
<dt class="varlistentry">
<span class="term"><i><tt class="parameter">data</tt></i>
</span>
</dt><dd class="listitem">
<p class="para">
A well-formed XML string or the path or URL to an XML document if
<i><tt class="parameter">data_is_url</tt></i>
is <b><tt class="constant">TRUE</tt></b>.
</p>
</dd>
<dt class="varlistentry">
<span class="term"><i><tt class="parameter">options</tt></i>
</span>
</dt><dd class="listitem">
<p class="para">
Optionally used to specify <a href="libxml.constants.php" class="link">additional
Libxml parameters</a>.
</p>
</dd>
<dt class="varlistentry">
<span class="term"><i><tt class="parameter">data_is_url</tt></i>
</span>
</dt><dd class="listitem">
<p class="para">
By default, <i><tt class="parameter">data_is_url</tt></i>
is <b><tt class="constant">FALSE</tt></b>. Use <b><tt class="constant">TRUE</tt></b> to
specify that <i><tt class="parameter">data</tt></i>
is a path or URL to an XML
document instead of <a href="language.types.string.php" class="type string">string</a> data.
</p>
</dd>
<dt class="varlistentry">
<span class="term"><i><tt class="parameter">ns</tt></i>
</span>
</dt><dd class="listitem">
<p class="para">
</p>
</dd>
<dt class="varlistentry">
<span class="term"><i><tt class="parameter">is_prefix</tt></i>
</span>
</dt><dd class="listitem">
<p class="para">
</p>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
</p>
</div>
<a name="simplexmlelement.construct.returnvalues"></a><div class="refsect1 returnvalues">
<h3 class="title">Return Values</h3>
<p class="para">
Returns a <a href="class.simplexmlelement.php" class="type SimpleXMLElement">SimpleXMLElement</a> object representing
<i><tt class="parameter">data</tt></i>
.
</p>
</div>
<a name="simplexmlelement.construct.errors"></a><div class="refsect1 errors">
<h3 class="title">Errors/Exceptions</h3>
<p class="para">
Produces an <b><tt class="constant">E_WARNING</tt></b> error message for each error
found in the XML data and throws an exception if errors were detected.
</p>
<div class="tip"><b class="tip">Tip</b>
<p class="para">
Use <a href="function.libxml-use-internal-errors.php" class="function">libxml_use_internal_errors()</a> to suppress all XML
errors, and <a href="function.libxml-get-errors.php" class="function">libxml_get_errors()</a> to iterate over them
afterwards.
</p>
</div>
</div>
<a name="simplexmlelement.construct.examples"></a><div class="refsect1 examples">
<h3 class="title">Examples</h3>
<p class="para">
</p><div class="example">
<p><b>Example #1 Create a SimpleXMLElement object</b></p>
<div class="example-contents programlisting">
<div class="phpcode"><code><span style="color: #000000">
<span style="color: #0000BB"><?php<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #007700">include </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'example.php'</span><span style="color: #007700">;<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$sxe </span><span style="color: #007700">= new </span><span style="color: #0000BB">SimpleXMLElement</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$xmlstr</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br />echo </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$sxe</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">movie</span><span style="color: #007700">[</span><span style="color: #0000BB">0</span><span style="color: #007700">]-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">title</span><span style="color: #007700">;<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">?></span>
</span>
</code></div>
</div>
</div><p>
</p>
<p class="para">
</p><div class="example">
<p><b>Example #2 Create a SimpleXMLElement object from a URL</b></p>
<div class="example-contents programlisting">
<div class="phpcode"><code><span style="color: #000000">
<span style="color: #0000BB"><?php<br /><br />$sxe </span><span style="color: #007700">= new </span><span style="color: #0000BB">SimpleXMLElement</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'http://example.org/document.xml'</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #0000BB">NULL</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #0000BB">TRUE</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br />echo </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$sxe</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">asXML</span><span style="color: #007700">();<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">?></span>
</span>
</code></div>
</div>
</div><p>
</p>
</div>
<a name="simplexmlelement.construct.seealso"></a><div class="refsect1 seealso">
<h3 class="title">See Also</h3>
<p class="para">
</p><ul class="simplelist">
<li class="member"><a href="function.simplexml-load-string.php" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">simplexml_load_string()</a> - Interprets a string of XML into an object</li>
<li class="member"><a href="function.simplexml-load-file.php" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">simplexml_load_file()</a> - Interprets an XML file into an object</li>
<li class="member"><a href="simplexml.examples-errors.php" class="xref">Dealing with XML errors</a></li>
<li class="member"><a href="function.libxml-use-internal-errors.php" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">libxml_use_internal_errors()</a> - Disable libxml errors and allow user to fetch error information as needed</li>
</ul><p>
</p>
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