Question

This morning my PHP script, for Twitter OAuth posting, stopped working. I suspect that Twitter added some rows for the returned string. Can anyone help how to debug this.

Thanks

Warning:  simplexml_load_string() [function.simplexml-load-string]: Entity: line 74: 
parser error : Entity 'copy' not defined in /nfs/c05/h01/mnt/82363/domains/html/c/cron.m.php on line 429

Warning:  simplexml_load_string() [function.simplexml-load-string]:           
<li class="first">&copy; 2011 Twitter</li> in /nfs/c05/h01/mnt/82363/domains/html/c/cron.m.php on line 429

Warning:  simplexml_load_string() [function.simplexml-load-string]: ^ in /nfs/c05/h01/mnt/82363/domains/html/c/cron.m.php on line 429

Answer 1

The XML contains HTML entities. © is not valid in XML. As a workaround you could pre-filter the document before handing it over to SimpleXML:

$xml = file_get_contents(...);
$xml = strtr($xml, array_flip(array_diff(
           get_html_translation_table(HTML_ENTITIES),
           get_html_translation_table(HTML_SPECIALCHARS)
       )));

$xml = simplexml_load_string($xml);