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Adam Ulivi
Adam Ulivi

Reputation: 85

Avoiding Errors When Attempting to Load an Unavailable File

Using php I want to load XML files from several websites and want to prevent errors if my one of the sites is down. I'm using this code to access the URL.

function get_xml($url){
 $xmlDoc = new DOMDocument();
 $xmlDoc->load($url); // This is the line causing errors
 $channel=$xmlDoc->getElementsByTagName('channel')->item(0);
 ...

If there is no xml feed available at $url I get lots of error messages like:

Warning: DOMDocument::load(): Space required after the Public Identifier

Warning: DOMDocument::load(): SystemLiteral " or ' expected

Warning: DOMDocument::load(): SYSTEM or PUBLIC, the URI is missing

Warning: DOMDocument::load(): Opening and ending tag mismatch: link line 5 and head

What can I do to prevent $url from attempting to load if the feed isn't available? I've tried:

if(file_exists($url)){
$xmlDoc->load('$url');
}

And things with fopen and @load but I could well have been using them incorrectly.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1905

Answers (2)

Francesco Laurita
Francesco Laurita

Reputation: 23552

Try with:

if (!@$xmlDoc->load($url)){
  return FALSE;
}

Your function get_xml will return immediately FALSE if the method load fails to load the XML data

Upvotes: 0

Pascal MARTIN
Pascal MARTIN

Reputation: 401022

In theory (and if I remember correctly), you should be able to catch those errors (so you call deal with them yourself, instead of having them displayed) using the libxml1 functions.


I'm especially thinking about libxml_use_internal_errors() :

libxml_use_internal_errors() allows you to disable standard libxml errors and enable user error handling.


1.libxml being the library that's using internally by DOMDocument -- and SimpleXML, btw

Upvotes: 1

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