Re: [PHP-DB] SimpleXML broke while I was sleeping.

did they change the source at WoWhead?




2008/12/11 Nicholas Mercier <[email protected]>

> So I had a code project that took the name of a piece of equipment in World
> of Warcraft - pulled the XML from WoWhead and pulled the database item
> number from the XML file. It worked for a long while and the code simply
> sat
> around not being used. I went back to pull the project out for inclusion in
> something new and it no longer works.
>
> I wasn't terribly comfortable with XML to begin with so I'm not sure what
> has changed - but here is the code the worked for so long:
>
> function item_num_from_xml($url)
> {
>    $xml = new SimpleXMLElement(rawurlencode($url), NULL, TRUE);
>    $item_num = $xml->items->item[id];
>    return $item_num;
> }
>
>        $xml_link = "http://www.wowhead.com/?search=".str_replace(" ", "+",
> $item)."&xml";
>        $item_num = item_num_from_xml($xml_link);
>        $itemlink = "http://www.wowhead.com/?item=".$item_num;
>
> This is the error message I now get:
> *Warning*: SimpleXMLElement::__construct()
> [simplexmlelement.--construct<
> http://www.theredshirts.com/test/simplexmlelement.--construct>]:
> http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wowhead.com <http://2fwww.wowhead.com/>
> %2F%3Fsearch%3DAngelista%27s%2BSash%26xml:84:
> parser error : Entity 'nbsp' not defined in *
> /home/thered/public_html/test/config.php* on line *28
>
> **Warning*: SimpleXMLElement::__construct()
> [simplexmlelement.--construct<
> http://www.theredshirts.com/test/simplexmlelement.--construct>]:
> pan> <span
> class="moneycopper">64</span></div></li><li><div>Disenchantable&nbsp; in *
> /home/thered/public_html/test/config.php* on line *28*
>
> and various other beauties including:
>
> *Fatal error*: Uncaught exception 'Exception' with message 'String could
> not
> be parsed as XML' in /home/thered/public_html/test/config.php:28 Stack
> trace: #0 /home/thered/public_html/test/config.php(28):
> SimpleXMLElement->__construct('http%3A%2F%2Fww...', 0, true) #1
> /home/thered/public_html/test/config.php(105): item_num_from_xml() #2
> /home/thered/public_html/test/display.php(86): display_drops('
> http://www.wowh...') #3 /home/thered/public_html/test/index.php(2):
> include('/home/thered/pu...') #4 {main} thrown in *
> /home/thered/public_html/test/config.php* on line *28
>
>
> First person to point out what stupid mistake I'm making can mock me for a
> long time.
> *
>



-- 
J.A. van Zanen