# XMLWriter::startAttribute

# xmlwriter_start_attribute

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

XMLWriter::startAttribute -- xmlwriter_start_attribute — Create start attribute

### Description

Object oriented style

XMLWriter::startAttribute ( string `$name` ) : bool

Procedural style

xmlwriter_start_attribute ( resource `$xmlwriter` , string `$name` ) : bool

Starts an attribute.

### Parameters

`xmlwriter`

  Only for procedural calls. The XMLWriter resource that is being modified. This resource comes 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.

### 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() - Create start namespaced attribute
- XMLWriter::endAttribute() - End attribute
- XMLWriter::writeAttribute() - Write full attribute
- XMLWriter::writeAttributeNs() - Write full namespaced attribute