PHP DomDocument failing to handle quotes in a url - php

Question

When I try to open a url like that :
http://api.anghami.com/rest/v1/GETsearch.view?sid=11754134061397734622103190992&query=Can't Remember to Forget You Shakira&searchtype=SONG&ook&songCount=1
containing a quote with the browser everything works fine and the output is good as an xml
But when I try to call it from a php file:
$url = "http:/api.anghami.com/rest/v1/GETsearch.view?sid=11754134061397734622103190992&query=Can't Remember to Forget You Shakira&searchtype=SONG&ook&songCount=1"
//using DOMDocument for parsing.
$data = new DOMDocument();
// loading the xml from Anghami API.
if($data->load("$url")){// Getting the Tag song.
foreach ($data->getElementsByTagName('song') as $searchNode)
{
$count++;
$n++;
//Getting the information of Anghami Song from the XML file.
$valueID = $searchNode->getAttribute('id');
$titleAnghami = $searchNode->getAttribute('title');
$album = $searchNode->getAttribute('album');
$albumID = $searchNode->getAttribute('albumID');
$artistAnghami = $searchNode->getAttribute('artist');
$track = $searchNode->getAttribute('track');
$year = $searchNode->getAttribute('year');
$coverArt = $searchNode->getAttribute('coverArt');
$ArtistArt = $searchNode->getAttribute('ArtistArt');
$size = $searchNode->getAttribute('size');
}
}
I get this error:
'Warning: DOMDocument::load(): I/O warning : failed to load external entity /var/www/html/http:/api.anghami.com/rest/v1/GETsearch.view?sid=11754134061397734622103190992&query=Can't Remember to Forget You Shakira&searchtype=SONG&ook&songCount=1" in /var/www/html/search.php on line 93'
Can anyone help please?

Answer 1

#Fracsi is correct: the URL needs to start with http:// not http:/
The other problem is that the XML has a default namespace (defined with the xmlns attribute on the root element), so you need to use
$data->getElementsByTagNameNS('http://api.anghami.com/rest/v1', 'song')
to select all the "song" elements.