simplexml error handling php

Question

I am using the following code:

function GetTwitterAvatar($username){
$xml = simplexml_load_file(\"http://twitter.com/users/\".$username.\".xml\");
$imgurl =          


        

Answer 1

My little code:

try {
    libxml_use_internal_errors(TRUE);
    $xml = new SimpleXMLElement($xmlString);
    echo '
'.htmlspecialchars($xml->asXML()).'
';
} catch (Exception $e) {
    echo 'Caught exception: ' . $e->getMessage() . chr(10);
    echo 'Failed loading XML: ' . chr(10);
    foreach(libxml_get_errors() as $error) {
        echo '- ' . $error->message;
    }
}

Result example:

Caught exception: String could not be parsed as XML
Failed loading XML: 
- Opening and ending tag mismatch: Body line 3 and Bod-y