#47734 [NEW]: simple_xml_load string fails without error message when encooding broken

From: cupidle at gmx dot de Operating system: WinXP SP2 PHP version: 5.2.9 PHP Bug Type: SimpleXML related Bug description: simple_xml_load string fails without error message when encooding broken Description: ------------ When simplexml_load_string fails loading xml it returns FALSE. An error message should be available via error_get_last. This is not the case when certain encoding errors are encountered. Reproduce code: --------------- I'm using this code to gracefully fall back on encoding errors: $xml = simplexml_load_string($data); // character encoding warning- hack if ($xml === false) { $error = error_get_last(); // this is nasty- sometimes simplexml_load_string fails but doesn't raise an error # if (eregi('simplexml_load_string', $error['message'])) { $xml = simplexml_load_string(utf8_encode($data)); } } Expected result: ---------------- This does _sometimes_ work (i.e. call the innermost, encoded version), but not always. For example, simplexml_load_string silently fails without error message when processing data from amazon like this: http://ecs.amazonaws.com/onca/xml?Service=AWSECommerceService&Version=2007-12-24&Operation=ItemSearch&AssociateTag=cpuidle-20&AWSAccessKeyId=1CB01P12WQBRDNH10NR2&ItemPage=1&Keywords=Star+Wars%3A+Episode+1& Actual result: -------------- simplexml_load_string returns FALSE, but does not return error message. -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=47734&edit=1 -- Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 5.2): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47734&r=trysnapshot52 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 5.3): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47734&r=trysnapshot53 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 6.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47734&r=trysnapshot60 Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47734&r=fixedcvs Fixed in CVS and need be documented: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47734&r=needdocs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47734&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47734&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47734&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47734&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47734&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47734&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47734&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47734&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47734&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47734&r=php4 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47734&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47734&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47734&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47734&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47734&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47734&r=mysqlcfg