ID: 28339 Comment by: becharakordahi at hotmail dot com Reported By: cwood at austin dot rr dot com Status: Bogus Bug Type: SimpleXML related Operating System: Mac OS X 10.2.8 PHP Version: 5.0.0RC2 New Comment:
I am a student learning php and xml . And I have difficulty by resolving some problems such as when I use "simplexml_load_string()" function I have this error: Fatal error: Call to undefined function: simplexml_load_string() in c:\inetpub\wwwroot\E_Learning\PHP\tryout\tt.php on line 14 this is the code i try : <?php $string = <<<XML <?xml version='1.0'?> <document> <title>Forty What?</title> <from>Joe</from> <to>Jane</to> <body> I know that's the answer -- but what's the question? </body> </document> XML; $xml = simplexml_load_string($string); var_dump($xml); ?> how can I resolve this problem Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2004-05-09 23:58:43] cwood at austin dot rr dot com DOH! Thanks. PHP rocks. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2004-05-09 23:53:15] [EMAIL PROTECTED] is not a defined XML entity. In XML, you can only use <, >, &, " and '. For other entities you must use numeric character references. See: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#syntax ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2004-05-09 21:29:06] cwood at austin dot rr dot com Description: ------------ When trying to load a string containing an HTML-encoded non-breaking space (" ") with simplexml_load_string, I get the following warning: Warning: Entity: line 14: error: Entity 'nbsp' not defined in /Library/WebServer/Documents/simple.php on line 11 But other HTML-escaped characters like > and < make it through fine. Reproduce code: --------------- <?php $xmlstr = <<<XML <?xml version='1.0'?> <rss> <channel> <item> <title>This is the title</title> <link>http://globelogger.com</link> <description>This is the description</description> </item> </channel> </rss> XML; $xml = simplexml_load_string(utf8_encode($xmlstr)); foreach($xml->channel->item as $item) { echo "<b><a href=".$item->link.">".$item->title."</a></b><br>".$item->description."<p>"; } ?> Expected result: ---------------- <b><a href=http://globelogger.com>This is the title</ a></b><br>This is the description<p> Actual result: -------------- Warning: Entity: line 7: error: Entity 'nbsp' not defined in /Library/WebServer/Documents/test.php on line 15 Warning: This�is the description in /Library/ WebServer/Documents/test.php on line 15 Warning: ^ in /Library/ WebServer/Documents/test.php on line 15 Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in / Library/WebServer/Documents/test.php on line 16 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=28339&edit=1
