PHP 7 simpleXML

Question

I\'m testing PHP7, and have a weird issue after a recent update. SimpleXML should be enabled by default, and my phpinfo page shows that it is available:

Answer 1

Typically on Debian systems you have different PHP configuration for CLI and for PHP running as say an Apache module. Your phpinfo page may very well show simplexml as being enabled via web server, while it is not enabled via CLI.