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user3416016

Reputation: 3

simplexml_load_file() giving error: Warning: simplexml_load_file()

I have XML document captured from a link and anytime I use simplexml_load_file(), it gives me an error saying *Warning: simplexml_load_file(): https://kga-dev.mirakl.net/api/shops?:1: parser error : Start tag expected, '<' not found in C:\wamp\www\merchants\get_merchants.php on line 6*

This is a part of my xml file

<body>
<shops>
<shop>...</shop>
<shop>
<approval_delay xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:nil="true"/>
<approval_rate xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:nil="true"/>
<order_messages_response_delay xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:nil="true"/>
<banner xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:nil="true"/>
<billing_info>
<bank_city xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:nil="true"/>
<bank_name xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:nil="true"/>
<bank_street xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:nil="true"/>
<zip_code xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:nil="true"/>
<bic xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:nil="true"/>
<iban xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:nil="true"/>
<owner xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:nil="true"/>
</billing_info>

And this is my simple php code

<?php

    $apiLink = "https://kga-dev.mirakl.net/api/shops?";

    $xml=simplexml_load_file($apiLink);
    print_r($xml);

    //echo $xml->shop_id;

?>

Upvotes: 0

Views: 697

Answers (3)

Jahangir Ansari
Jahangir Ansari

Reputation: 61

Your Code

<approval_rate xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:nil="true"/>

use single quotes 

<?php
  echo "<order_messages_response_delay xmlns:xsi='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance' xsi:nil='true'/>";
?>

Upvotes: 1

Marcel
Marcel

Reputation: 5119

The solution for this problem is, that the API serves a JSON encoded string instead of an XML string. So the delivered content can not be parsed with SimpleXML. Try to get it with the following example

$content = file_get_contents($apiLink);
$data = json_decode($content);

In this case $data should be an object or array with all the data the api delivers.

Upvotes: 1

Bartosz Pachołek
Bartosz Pachołek

Reputation: 1308

Are you sure that this is the same XML as returned to the script? Note that you are not calling :1 - I cannot check as it requires authorization, yet in the example given by you there is no error up to line 7 so it would mean that possibly something else is returned as the code below works:

<?php
$s = '<body>
    <shops>
        <shop>...</shop>
        <shop>
            <approval_delay xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:nil="true"/>
            <approval_rate xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:nil="true"/>
            <order_messages_response_delay xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:nil="true"/>
            <banner xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:nil="true"/>
        </shop>
    </shops>
</body>';

$xml=simplexml_load_string($s);
print_r($xml);

?>

Is not the authorization the problem your end? I need to authorize to your webservice: you handle that in a different way for your IP or something like that?

Upvotes: 1

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