simplexml will not load

[jackjames]

I'm pretty new to php.  But the below script should get news articles from google news rss.  It is failing to load the simplexml and returns false.  Any idea why?

 

$url = "http://news.google.com/news?geo=90210";
if ($xml = @simplexml_load_file($url))
					{
						for ($i=0; $i<4; $i++)
						{
							$item= $xml->channel->item[$i];

							$link= '<a href = "'.(string) $item->link.'", target= "_blank">'.(string) substr($item->title, 0, 50).'...</a><br />';
							$news[]= $link;
						}
					}

[KevinM1]

The '@' squelches errors.  Remove it and see if simplexml_load_file() is actually generating an error.

[jackjames]

Thanks for your quick reply.  When removed (@) I get many errors, below is an example of some of them.  I've removed my home directory by line of code refers to: if ($xml = simplexml_load_file($url))

 

Warning: simplexml_load_file() [function.simplexml-load-file]: http://news.google.com/news?geo=02138:10: parser error : xmlParseEntityRef: no name in

 

Warning: simplexml_load_file() [function.simplexml-load-file]: try{var pageT=null;GLOBAL_window.chrome&&GLOBAL_window.chrome.csi&&(pageT=Math.f in

 

Warning: simplexml_load_file() [function.simplexml-load-file]: ^ in

 

Warning: simplexml_load_file() [function.simplexml-load-file]: http://news.google.com/news?geo=02138:10: parser error : EntityRef: expecting ';' in