Doc #61302 [NEW]: SimpleXML documentation has an error.

From: Operating system: Fedora Linux PHP version: Irrelevant Package: Documentation problem Bug Type: Documentation Problem Bug description:SimpleXML documentation has an error. Description: ------------ --- From manual page: http://www.php.net/simplexml.examples-basic --- The documentation reads: $movies = new SimpleXMLElement($xmlstr); echo $movies->movie[0]->plot; The above example will output: So, this language. It's like, a programming language. Or is it a scripting language? All is revealed in this thrilling horror spoof of a documentary. No. That example will not output that. It outputs a SimpleXML Object. You need to cast it to a string to get that output. The documentation should make this clearer. Test script: --------------- <?php header('Content-Type: text/plain'); $movies = file_get_contents('sample.movies.xml'); $xml = new SimpleXMLElement($movies); $plot = (string)$xml->movie->plot; var_dump($plot); foreach ($plot as $v) { var_dump($v); } exit(__FILE__ . ': ' . __LINE__); -- Edit bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=61302&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.4): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61302&r=trysnapshot54 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.3): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61302&r=trysnapshot53 Try a snapshot (trunk): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61302&r=trysnapshottrunk Fixed in SVN: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61302&r=fixed Fixed in SVN and need be documented: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61302&r=needdocs Fixed in release: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61302&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61302&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61302&r=needscript Try newer version: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61302&r=oldversion Not developer issue: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61302&r=support Expected behavior: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61302&r=notwrong Not enough info: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61302&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61302&r=submittedtwice register_globals: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61302&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61302&r=php4 Daylight Savings: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61302&r=dst IIS Stability: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61302&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61302&r=gnused Floating point limitations: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61302&r=float No Zend Extensions: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61302&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61302&r=mysqlcfg