simplexml load on google weather api prooblem - php

Question

Hi I have been having problems with the google weather api having errors Warning: simplexml_load_string() [function.simplexml-load-string]: Entity: line 2: parser error ....
I tried to use the script of the main author(thinking it was my edited script) but still I am having this errors I tried 2
//komunitasweb.com/2009/09/showing-the-weather-with-php-and-google-weather-api/
and
//tips4php.net/2010/07/local-weather-with-php-and-google-weather/
The weird part is sometimes it fixes itself then goes back again to the error I have been using it for months now without any problem, this just happened yesterday. Also the demo page of the authors are working but I have the same exact code any help please.
this is my site http://j2sdesign.com/weather/widgetlive1.php
#Mike I added your code
<?
$xml = file_get_contents('http://www.google.com/ig/api?weather=jakarta'); if (! simplexml_load_string($xml)) { file_put_contents('malformed.xml', $xml); }
$xml = simplexml_load_file('http://www.google.com/ig/api?weather=jakarta');
$information = $xml->xpath("/xml_api_reply/weather/forecast_information");
$current = $xml->xpath("/xml_api_reply/weather/current_conditions");
$forecast_list = $xml->xpath("/xml_api_reply/weather/forecast_conditions");
?>
and made a list of the error but I can't seem to see the error cause it's been fixing itself then after sometime goes back again to the error
here is the content of the file
<?php include_once('simple_html_dom.php'); // create doctype $dom = new DOMDocument("1.0");
// display document in browser as plain text
// for readability purposes //header("Content-Type: text/plain");
// create root element
$xmlProducts = $dom->createElement("products");
$dom->appendChild($xmlProducts);
$pages = array( 'http://myshop.com/small_houses.html', 'http://myshop.com/medium_houses.html', 'http://myshop.com/large_houses.html' ) foreach($pages as $page) { $product = array(); $source = file_get_html($page); foreach($source->find('img') as $src) { if (strpos($src->src,"http://myshop.com") === false) { $product['image'] = "http://myshop.com/$src->src"; } } foreach($source->find('p[class*=imAlign_left]') as $description) { $product['description'] = $description->innertext; } foreach($source->find('span[class*=fc3]') as $title) { $product['title'] = $title->innertext; } //debug perposes! echo "Current Page: " . $page . "\n"; print_r($product); echo "\n\n\n"; //Clear seperator } ?>

Answer 1

When simplexml_load_string() fails you need to store the data you're trying to load somewhere for review. Examining the data is the first step to diagnose what it causing the error.
$xml = file_get_contents('http://example.com/file.xml');
if (!simplexml_load_string($xml)) {
file_put_contents('malformed.xml', $xml);
}