Title: Fatal error when activating
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Fatal error when activating

 *  Resolved [Jaap de Wit](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hitec4ever/)
 * (@hitec4ever)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-when-activating-37/)
 * Hi,
 * I’ve installed the latest version of starbox and when I activate it I receive
   the following error:
 * Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function simplexml_load_string()
   in /var/www/example.com/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/starbox/classes/HookController.
   php:139 Stack trace: #0 /var/www/example.com/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/starbox/
   classes/FrontController.php(39): ABH_Classes_HookController->getShortcodes(Object(
   ABH_Classes_Error)) #1 /var/www/example.com/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/starbox/
   classes/Error.php(12): ABH_Classes_FrontController->__construct() #2 /var/www/
   example.com/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/starbox/classes/ObjController.php(28): 
   ABH_Classes_Error->__construct() #3 /var/www/example.com/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/
   starbox/classes/FrontController.php(24): ABH_Classes_ObjController::getController(‘
   ABH_Classes_Err…’) #4 /var/www/example.com/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/starbox/
   classes/ObjController.php(28): ABH_Classes_FrontController->__construct() #5 /
   var/www/example.com/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/starbox/starbox.php(26): ABH_Classes_ObjController::
   getCo in /var/www/example.com/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/starbox/classes/HookController.
   php on line 139
 * Previous versions were also not working but didn’t generate this error. Server
   is running PHP7. See my other support topic.
 * Cheers,
    Jaap
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/starbox/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/starbox/)

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 *  Thread Starter [Jaap de Wit](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hitec4ever/)
 * (@hitec4ever)
 * [9 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-when-activating-37/#post-7345365)
 * Solved this issue. By default the PHP 7 installation doesn’t include php7.0-xml.
   Installing it separately solved the problem.

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