Class 'SimpleXMLElement' not found on puphpet PHP 5.6

Question

I've been stuck at this error for hours now and I can't seem to find anything useful on the internet about it. The error is the classic

Fatal error: Class 'SimpleXMLElement' not found in 
/var/www/NavPHP/nav/plugin/log/NavLog.php on line 29

I'm not using Namespace so that's not the problem.

It's a project that works fine in production and used to work in my former computer with WampServer and PHP 5.6.2. Now that I got a new computer, I'm interested in setting up a virtual environment with puphpet, but I'm getting this error.

According to Docs, the SimpleXMLElement class should come with PHP by default. I didn't find any important information on php.ini and in my phpinfo() there's the following:

SimpleXML   Sterling Hughes, Marcus Boerger, Rob Richards

Any tips?

Thanks

Update

Just to add this

Marco Aurélio Deleu · Accepted Answer · 2017-02-02T10:36:45.697

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The problem was that I was using Cent OS and in this Linux Distribution, the php-libxml package does not come as default.

I ended up generating a new machine through PuPHPet GUI and added to the System Package the following packages to be installed:

php-xml, php-simplexml

Problem solved.

For those using PHP 7 and Ubuntu, @MPS solved it by running apt-get install php7.0-xml and service apache2 restart.

On Centos, we need to install the XML php package. You can try yum install php56w-xml or yum install php70w-xml if you're using php70w repository for PHP 7.0

edited Feb 02 '17 at 10:36

answered Mar 07 '16 at 01:30

Marco Aurélio Deleu

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Thanks, it worked for me. for others using PHP7 version: ```apt-get install php7.0-xml``` and don't forget apache restart: ```service apache2 restart``` – MPS May 10 '16 at 02:15
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For PHP 5.6 it's: apt-get install php5.6-xml – FosAvance Oct 10 '16 at 08:14
If you're using nginx restart it by using: `sudo service nginx restart` – cREcker Jul 10 '18 at 12:25

score 7 · Answer 2 · edited Feb 20 '20 at 13:44

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I faced this issued and finally solved by run following command :

apt install php5.6-xml

After it reload and restart apache2 service :

service apache2 reload   

service apache2 restart

And a PHP restart may be required

systemctl restart php-fpm

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answered Jul 30 '18 at 12:54

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 30 '19 at 08:39

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If you are running ubuntu in AWS Cloud 9. Then from your menu bar->Window->New Terminal->type sudo apt install php-xml

answered Apr 30 '19 at 08:39

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Class 'SimpleXMLElement' not found on puphpet PHP 5.6

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