DOMDocument missing in php5.6

Question

I'm attempting to set up a store using opencart which i am honestly very new to. I bought a theme and for some reason the team uses vqmod. I was able to install the vqmod using:

localhost/mystore/vqmod/install

and i get this response.

VQMOD ALREADY INSTALLED!

Now, when i navigate to

localhost/mystore

An error pops up saying

DomDocument

The full error message is

VQMod::bootup - ERROR - YOU NEED THE PHP "DOMDocument" EXTENSION INSTALLED TO USE VQMod

After a little research, i figured i had to install the php5.6-xml and php7.0-xml which i have.

However the error is still showing.

I went into the vqmod code and noticed the section raising the error is this.

if(!class_exists('DOMDocument')) {
        die('VQMod::bootup - ERROR - YOU NEED THE PHP "DOMDocument" EXTENSION INSTALLED TO USE VQMod');
    }

which means there's a DOMDocument class i'm missing.

However, i have tried everything i've seen online. From installing php-xml, purging php, installing php-dom,restarting apache2, checking phpinfo.

None of these seem to solve the issue.

How do i get the DOMDocument class?

Why are you using a php version from last millennium? – Dominic Feb 05 '19 at 13:23 — Dominic, Feb 05 '19 at 13:23

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 05 '19 at 13:21

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I have solved this issue on PHP 7.2.10-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 with bellow commands.

sudo apt-get install php7.2-xml
sudo apt-get install php7.2-mbstring

answered Feb 05 '19 at 13:21

Nanhe Kumar

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 03 '17 at 06:12

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DOMDocument is part of the PHP DOM extension along with libxml which are enabled by default hence should already be part of PHP. You may need to recompile PHP.

answered Jan 03 '17 at 06:12

JBES

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Have you checked it was not compiled with `--disable-dom`? You can check this with `phpinfo()` - http://php.net/manual/en/dom.installation.php – JBES Jan 03 '17 at 06:22
Under what section would this be cause i just searched the whole ``phpinfo()`` output for ``--disable-dom`` and it returned zero result. – Fadil Olamyy Wahab Jan 03 '17 at 06:35
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At the top - 'Configure Command', however it seems this is a bug in PHP 5.6. Look for php5.6-xml with `apt-cache search php dom` - `apt-get install php5.6-xml` then restart Apache. – JBES Jan 03 '17 at 06:39
``apt-cache search php dom`` returns ``php5.6-xml - DOM, SimpleXML, WDDX, XML, and XSL module for PHP`` – Fadil Olamyy Wahab Jan 03 '17 at 07:08
That is the package that should do it - `apt-get install php5.6-xml` and then restart Apache – JBES Jan 03 '17 at 09:22

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered May 17 '17 at 15:41

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As mentioned by JBES - apt-get install php5.6-xml did work for me.

answered May 17 '17 at 15:41

mrtechmaker

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score 0 · Answer 4 · edited Jun 07 '17 at 10:08

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VQMod::bootup - ERROR - YOU NEED THE PHP "DOMDocument" EXTENSION INSTALLED TO USE VQMod

Best resolution which helped me is to write in PHP.ini:

extension=dom.so

This will solve the issue :)

edited Jun 07 '17 at 10:08

Sergey Glotov

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answered Jun 07 '17 at 10:02

krishnapraveen kumar

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DOMDocument missing in php5.6

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