XMLWriter::startAttribute

xmlwriter_start_attribute

Create start attribute

Description

Object-oriented style

public bool XMLWriter::startAttribute(string $name)

Procedural style

bool xmlwriter_start_attribute(XMLWriter $writer, string $name)

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"/>

See Also

  • XMLWriter::startAttributeNs
  • XMLWriter::endAttribute
  • XMLWriter::writeAttribute
  • XMLWriter::writeAttributeNs