PHP: Whats's the difference between the SimpleXMLElement() class and SimpleXML_load_string()?

早过忘川 提交于 2019-12-02 20:36:14

simplexml_load_string() (as the name suggest) load xml from a string and returns an object of SimepleXMLElement. There is no difference between this and using just the usual constructor of the class.

Update:

SimpleXML::__construct() has an additional parameter (the third one) bool $data_is_url = false. If this is true the behavior is the same as simplexml_load_file() (in conjunction with the common stream wrappers). Thus both simplexml_load_*()-functions cover the same functionality as SimpleXML::__construct().

Additional the functions simplexml_load_*() has a second parameter string $class_name = "SimpleXMLElement" to specify the class of the object to get returned. Thats not a specific feature of the functions, because you can "use" something very similar with usual instanciation too

class MyXML extends SimpleXMLElement {}
$a = new MyXML($xml);
$b = simplexml_load_string($xml, 'MyXML');

A difference between the OOP- and the procedural approach is, that the functions return false on error, but the constructor throws an Exception.

mario

It's mostly a convenience wrapper. With constructing the base element yourself, you need at least two lines of code to accomplish anything. With simplexml_load_string() a single expression might suffice:

 print simplexml_load_string($xml)->title;

Is shorter than:

 $e = new SimpleXMLElement($xml);
 print $e->title;

And then of course, there is also the slight variation in the function signature.

Update: And exactly the same length as of

print(new SimpleXMLElement($xml))->title;

simplexml_load_string can return a different object:

class_name

You may use this optional parameter so that simplexml_load_string() will return an object of the specified class. That class should extend the SimpleXMLElement class.

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