Call to undefined function simplexml_load_file()

Question

I have php 7.0 running on my ubuntu server.

php -m command says:

[PHP Modules]
calendar
Core
ctype
curl
date
dom
exif
fileinfo
filter
ftp
gd
gettext
hash
ico         


        

Answer 1

I had the same issue. I fixed it by installing php7.2-xml:

$ sudo apt-get install php7.2-xml
$ sudo systemctl reload apache2 

After that, SimpleXML got listed by php -m:

$ php -m | grep -i simple
SimpleXML