Handling errors

NZ_Kiwis

I'm running a large script and sometimes it works fine and sometimes i get this error? i'm not sure why and i'll come to fixing that soon.

FIrst of all the code loops through an array of RSS feeds, if it fails it stops what i want it to do it if fails on one is to crarry on, is that possible?

Line 31 and 32 are this

$rss = simplexml_load_file("$feed");
foreach($rss->xpath('channel/item') as $item){

My error is this

Warning: simplexml_load_file() [function.simplexml-load-file]: http://syndication.apn.co.nz/rss/nzhrsscid_000000270.xml:1: parser error : Start tag expected, '<' not found in E:\wamp\www\scripts\cron_news.php on line 31

Warning: simplexml_load_file() [function.simplexml-load-file]: ‹ in E:\wamp\www\scripts\cron_news.php on line 31

Warning: simplexml_load_file() [function.simplexml-load-file]: ^ in E:\wamp\www\scripts\cron_news.php on line 31

Fatal error: Call to a member function xpath() on a non-object in E:\wamp\www\scripts\cron_news.php on line 32

niroshan

Hi NZ_Kiwis,

The error generated due to non validated xml files.

if($rss = simplexml_load_file("$feed"))
{
    foreach($rss->xpath('channel/item') as $item){ 
   ......
}

This should fix your problem. since 'simplexml_load_file' will return false in case any error so you can simply ignore the non validaed xml`s and continue..

But this wont stop the WARNING errors.. for that you may use,

error_reporting(0);

But not recommended 🙂

Thanks,
best regards,
Niroshan