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When I call

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SimpleXMLElement("...an XML string...")

I get the error
Fatal error: Call to undefined function simplexmlelement()
Can you help?

I have XAMPP 1.7.1 installed (because I need PHP 5.2).
NB: I've checked to see that libxml is installed. When I run

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print_r(get_loaded_extensions());

it lists libxml and SimpleXML.

Any ideas?

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"Fatal error: Call to undefined function simplexmlelement()"

http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/showthread.php?t=191658

WilliL wrote:found for you with goole search
"Fatal error: Call to undefined function simplexmlelement()"

http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/showthread.php?t=191658

Unfortunately there isn't an simplexml extension to uncomment in the XAMPP php.ini.
For what it's worth, I put "extension=simplexml.dll" anyway (changing the .so from the above URL to a .dll as we're on Windows). Apache restarted OK (to my surprise) but it didn't solve the problem. Looking through the xampp\php\ext folder shows that simplexml.dll isn't there.

NB: I did a fair bit of Google searching before posting here... not to say I didn't miss something tho!

Anyone else got ideas about getting SimpleXMLElement() working in XAMPP 1.7.1?

After a bit more checking, I see that SimpleXML is enabled, by looking at phpinfo(). Any ideas why it still says "undefined function simplexmlelement()"?

Because SimpleXMLElement is not a function, it's a class.
Use it like this:
$xml = new SimpleXMLElement(....)