error codes for simplexml

[lruneh]

I'm using simplexml to parse some feeds. Sometimes simplexml returns an error because the feeds - for whatever reason - can't be parsed by simplexml.
What I'd like is to discard the ugly errors that simplexml returns and display a custom error in stead. Could someone please help me with that? I've tried "or die()" and if(!$xml){}

any help would be greatly appriciated! Thanks

[NogDog]

One possibility that let's you still trap the error in your error log:

$er = error_reporting(0);
$xml = simplexml_load_string('test');
error_reporting($er);
if($xml === false)
{
   $error = error_get_last();
   error_log(print_r($error,1));
   echo "Could not parse XML";
}
else
{
   echo "It worked:<br />\n<pre>".print_r($xml,1)."</pre>";
}

[lruneh]

Hey Nogdog

Thank you very much for your reply! It worked. I had to change my code from $RSS = new SimpleXMLElement("$url", null, true); to $RSS = simpleXML_load_file("$url"); I have no idea what the difference is exactly, but it works...

Thanks again!