Retrieving BIO information in LastFM API and PHP

Retrieving BIO information in LastFM API and PHP - php

I'm trying to look up the artist BIO information with the LASTFM api but I'm having trouble.
I'm using PHP and a CURL request that's returning the result as XML.
If I use the url that gets sent by CURL and just load it normally in the browser it show's everything as desired. However, the result returned by CURL in the php script is missing certain properties of the XML.
For example: artist->bio->summary is there but with no content.
You can replicate what I'm doing ill copy the basic concepts here:
open this in you browser:
http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/2.0/artist/cher/info.xml
copy and paste this into a PHP file and open:
$url = 'http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/2.0/artist/cher/info.xml';
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 20);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE);
$retData = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
echo '<pre>';
echo $retData;
echo '</pre>';
You'll see that the returned results are similar but with missing content in the curl request. I've also tried doing this a simplexml_load_file() but the same happens. What am I missing? Cheers for any help!

Try to replace
echo $retData;
with
echo htmlspecialchars($retData);
and you'll see that everything is there. You're printing raw XML in an HTML context, and some of the tags in the XML are interpreted as HTML tags.

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