channel api and utf 8

kentor · #1 8th September 2009, 03:05

So I'm trying to load the channel XML file with php using

Code:

<?php
$doc = new DOMDocument();
$xml = "http://channel.api.livestream.com/1.0/info?channel=oystein123"
$doc->load($xml);
?>

And I get the error:

Code:

Warning: DOMDocument::load() [domdocument.load]: Input is not proper UTF-8, indicate encoding ! Bytes: 0xD8 0x79 0x73 0x74 in http://channel.api.livestream.com/1.0/info?channel=oystein123

i noticed this happens to any channel whose title has some special character in it.
is there a fix to this?

FVMK · #2 8th September 2009, 09:25

Tested this, should work:
<?php

$myXMLString = file_get_contents("http://channel.api.livestream.com/1.0/info?channel=oystein123");
$myXMLString = utf8_decode($myXMLString);
$doc = new DOMDocument('1.0', 'iso-8859-1');
$doc->loadXML($myXMLString);

echo $doc->saveHTML();

?>

kentor · #3 10th September 2009, 21:57

it doesn't give an error anymore but the special characters are just replaced by a "?".

plus I think this method is kind of slow and it uses a lot more resources especially if you want to do this for lots of channels

thanks for the help though

paul167 · #4 11th September 2009, 10:16

Thanks for reporting this, we're going to take a look at it and will let you know.

FVMK · #5 12th September 2009, 05:58

This works fine for me:

PHP Code:


			
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">

<html>

    <head>

        <title>Livestream Channel-API Test</title>

        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">

    </head>

    <body>

        <div>

            <?php

                $myXMLString = file_get_contents("http://channel.api.livestream.com/1.0/info?channel=oystein123");

                $myXMLString = utf8_encode($myXMLString);

                $doc = new DOMDocument('1.0', 'UTF-8');

                $doc->loadXML($myXMLString);

                //echo $doc->getElementsByTagName('channel')->item(0)->getElementsByTagName('isLive')->item(0)->nodeValue;

                echo $doc->saveHTML();

            ?>

        </div>

    </body>

</html>

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