#36917 [Opn->Bgs]: simplexml_load_file throws multiple errors making track_errors ineffective

ID: 36917 Updated by: bjori@php.net Reported By: php at xmlnode dot com -Status: Open +Status: Bogus Bug Type: SimpleXML related Operating System: Debian PHP Version: 5.1.2 New Comment: Thank you for taking the time to write to us, but this is not a bug. Please double-check the documentation available at http://www.php.net/manual/ and the instructions on how to report a bug at http://bugs.php.net/how-to-report.php libxml_use_internal_errors(true); var_dump(libxml_get_last_error()); Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2006-03-30 00:29:27] php at xmlnode dot com Description: ------------ when simplexml_load_file fails (because the target xml file is empty for example) there are multiple, basically useless, errors reported that makes track_errors and $php_errormsg ineffective My workaround has been to load the file using dom and grab it's relevant error message then use interop to switch to simple if everything is ok... definitely sub-optimal. Reproduce code: --------------- <?php //the easiest test is to create an empty file called empty.xml error_reporting(2047); ini_set('display_errors',0); ini_set('track_errors',1); if( ! $x = simplexml_load_file('empty.xml') ){ echo $php_errormsg; } ?> Expected result: ---------------- either: "empty.xml:1: parser error : Document is empty" or: "empty.xml:1: parser error : Start tag expected, '<' not found" Actual result: -------------- "^" If you enable display_errors you'll see that there are 3 warnings for each 'error' ("Document is empty" and "Start tag expected") There's the relevant error, then an empty error message and then the last one where the message is just "^" and because that's the last one, that's the one stored in $php_errormsg. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=36917&edit=1