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Doc Bug #53186 Error in the example
Submitted: 2010-10-27 18:22 UTC Modified: 2010-11-06 02:13 UTC
From: bruce at z2a dot org Assigned: frozenfire (profile)
Status: Closed Package: Documentation problem
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 [2010-10-27 18:22 UTC] bruce at z2a dot org 
Description:
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This example doesn't work.  The output is supposed to be "movie" but there is no movie in the inputs.

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simplexml-examples-addincludenote (last revision 2010-11-05 21:02 UTC by frozenfire at thefrozenfire dot com)

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 [2010-10-27 18:26 UTC] salathe@php.net 
Which page is this error on?
 [2010-10-27 19:48 UTC] bruce at z2a dot org 
Oops... I thought the "Report A Bug" would include a back pointer to the page.
It is on http://us2.php.net/manual/en/simplexmlelement.getName.php.
I think the example is building on a previous page but it would be better if you could understand the getName example on the page where it is described.
 [2010-10-27 23:51 UTC] salathe@php.net 
Many of the SimpleXML examples include an "example.php" file that can be found here: http://php.net/manual/en/simplexml.examples-basic.php

We do try to make examples as standalone as possible so I can certainly understand the confusion here. Perhaps it is worth linking back to the page above from those examples which make use of that example.php file.
 [2010-10-28 11:35 UTC] rquadling@php.net 
Relating to Bruce's comment 2010-10-27 17:48 UTC, http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?
id=53189
 [2010-11-05 22:05 UTC] frozenfire at thefrozenfire dot com 
I have added a patch which adds a note to each example section which makes use of the example.php include, noting where that code can be found. This should clear up any confusion to that effect.

Tangentially, the SimpleXMLElement::getName() example does indeed function as expected.
 [2010-11-06 00:05 UTC] frozenfire@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Assigned -Assigned To: +Assigned To: frozenfire
 [2010-11-06 00:56 UTC] frozenfire@php.net 
Automatic comment from SVN on behalf of frozenfire
Revision: http://svn.php.net/viewvc/?view=revision&revision=305120
Log: Added a note to all SimpleXMLElement method examples which make use of the example.php include, indicating where that include is located. As per bug #53186.
 [2010-11-06 02:13 UTC] frozenfire@php.net
-Status: Assigned +Status: Closed
 [2010-11-06 02:13 UTC] frozenfire@php.net 
This bug has been fixed in the documentation's XML sources. Since the
online and downloadable versions of the documentation need some time
to get updated, we would like to ask you to be a bit patient.

Thank you for the report, and for helping us make our documentation better.
 
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