[RESOLVED] Weird Error With DOM loadXML

[javier_06]

Hi people,

I got a running code to parse a XML string. What I just do (taken from PHP documentation):

$objDOM = new DOMDocument();
if($objDOM->loadXML($xml))
{
//my code here
}

It worked perfectly, but then it just started to fail in the loadXML call. I don't know what changed (I think nothing) since the last time I tried it and worked, I also tried adding try..catch blocks to debug the error, but it does not fall into the catch block (I guess is because of some compiler error?).

I would appreciate any help in the matter.

PD: I'm using php-5.3.3-Win32-VC6-x86 version.

Thanks.

[javier_06]

I just found the same problem here, but it wasn't solved.

http://phpbuilder.com/board/showthread.php?t=10341914&highlight=loadxml

[javier_06]

Hey,

I found what was happening.

Basically, when installing PHP in my computer for developing, I was following some instructions that said to copy all DLL files in the 'ext' folder (PHP 5) to the Windows folder. But, then in other guide I saw that is was unnecessary so I removed all those files from the Windows folder.

Here is the funny thing (it actually took me an entire day to find out about this), when I restarted the computer and run again (the first time I didn't see the warning about a missing php_domxml.dll at startup) mysteriously my code stopped working.

It was until I restarted my computer again (several hours later) that I saw that message again. So I copied the file php_domxml.dll again to Windows folder and all worked perfectly (bad for me I already replaced all my code by simple_xml).

So, what happened is that the library got loaded when I copied it to the Windows folder, and everything worked until I restarted the computer and PHP could not find the DLL file that was removed.

Everything can be fixed by just copying the file php_domxml.dll to the Windows folder.

Sorry the long answer and by the multiple posts.