XMLWriter::startAttribute

xmlwriter_start_attribute

(PHP 5 >= 5.1.2, PHP 7, PHP 8, PECL xmlwriter >= 0.1.0)

XMLWriter::startAttribute -- xmlwriter_start_attributeCreate start attribute

Description

Object-oriented style

public XMLWriter::startAttribute(string $name): bool

Procedural style

xmlwriter_start_attribute(XMLWriter $writer, string $name): bool

Starts an attribute.

Parameters

writer

Only for procedural calls. The XMLWriter instance that is being modified. This object is returned from a call to xmlwriter_open_uri() or xmlwriter_open_memory().

name

The attribute name.

Return Values

Returns true on success or false on failure.

Changelog

Version Description
8.0.0 writer expects an XMLWriter instance now; previously, a resource was expected.

Examples

Example #1 Basic XMLWriter::startAttribute() Usage

<?php$writer = new XMLWriter;$writer->openURI('php://output');$writer->startDocument('1.0', 'UTF-8');$writer->startElement('element');$writer->startAttribute('attribute');$writer->text('value');$writer->endAttribute();$writer->endElement();$writer->endDocument();

The above example will output something similar to:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<element attribute="value"/>

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