From: cupidle at gmx dot de
Operating system: WinXP SP2
PHP version: 5.2.9
PHP Bug Type: SimpleXML related
Bug description: simple_xml_load string fails without error message when
encooding broken
Description:
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When simplexml_load_string fails loading xml it returns FALSE.
An error message should be available via error_get_last. This is not the
case when certain encoding errors are encountered.
Reproduce code:
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I'm using this code to gracefully fall back on encoding errors:
$xml = simplexml_load_string($data);
// character encoding warning- hack
if ($xml === false)
{
$error = error_get_last();
// this is nasty- sometimes simplexml_load_string fails but
doesn't raise an error
# if (eregi('simplexml_load_string', $error['message']))
{
$xml = simplexml_load_string(utf8_encode($data));
}
}
Expected result:
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This does _sometimes_ work (i.e. call the innermost, encoded version), but
not always. For example, simplexml_load_string silently fails without error
message when processing data from amazon like this:
http://ecs.amazonaws.com/onca/xml?Service=AWSECommerceService&Version=2007-12-24&Operation=ItemSearch&AssociateTag=cpuidle-20&AWSAccessKeyId=1CB01P12WQBRDNH10NR2&ItemPage=1&Keywords=Star+Wars%3A+Episode+1&;
Actual result:
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simplexml_load_string returns FALSE, but does not return error message.
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Fixed in CVS and need be documented:
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47734&r=needdocs
Fixed in release:
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Try newer version:
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Not developer issue:
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Expected behavior:
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Not enough info:
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Submitted twice:
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register_globals:
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47734&r=globals
PHP 4 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47734&r=php4
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IIS Stability:
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