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XMLWriter::openUri

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

Create new xmlwriter using source uri for output

Description

Oop

XMLWriter::openUri(string $uri): bool

Procedural

xmlwriter_open_uri(string $uri): XMLWriter|false

Creates a new XMLWriter using uri for the output.

Oop: Success

Procedural: Returns a new XMLWriter instance for later use with the xmlwriter functions on success, Falseforfailure.

Version	Description
8.0.0	This function returns now an `XMLWriter` instance on success. Previously, a Resource has been returned in this case.

Direct output of XML

It is possible to directly output XML by using the php://output stream wrapper.

php

<?php
$out =new XMLWriter();
$out->openURI('php://output');
?>

Note

On Windows, files opened with this function are locked until the writer is released.