Escaping colons?

[Popple3]

I'm parsing XML, but many of the tags in the XML file (which I have no control over) have colons ( : ) in them, and as a result i get an "Unexpected ':'" parse error. Is there a way of escaping these colons, or removing them from the XML before it is parsed? I'm using PHP4...

Thanks in advance

[phpSensei]

maybe use str_replace(":","\:",$page);

 

I don't know really.

[Popple3]

Sadly, "\:" doesn't escape colons...

[papaface]

Can you show us an example of your problem.

[phpSensei]

It should have worked, I don't see why a colon would be a problem here.

 

If you want to remove them, just do

 

str_replace(":", "" , $page);

[Popple3]

Yeah, I meant to actually include it 

 

<?php
include('xmlparser.php');
//Get the XML document loaded into a variable
$xml = file_get_contents('http://picasaweb.google.com/data/feed/api/user/popple3?kind=album');
//Set up the parser object
$parser = new XMLParser($xml);

//Work the magic...
$parser->Parse();

//Echo the plot of each <movie>
foreach($parser->document->entry as $entry)
{
    $imgurl = $entry->media:group->media:thumbnail->tagAttrs['url'];
    echo $entry->title[0]->tagData;
    echo "<img src=\"" . $imgurl . "\">";
}
?>

 

And then that just returns:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected ':' in /home/www/popple3.com/picasa.php on line 14

[papaface]

Shouldnt it be :: ?

I'm new to objects so I'm not sure.

[Popple3]

Shouldnt it be :: ?

I'm new to objects so I'm not sure.

When I do that I get

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM in /home/www/popple3.com/picasa.php on line 13

[darkfreaks]

<?php
$pattern= ':;,.@/|\~`&-=+_';
$replace='';
$string='123456789';
preg_replace($pattern,$replace,$string);
?>

[PFMaBiSmAd]

I recommend echoing out the parsed data to see what it contains. Use var_dump() or print_r().

 

Also, provide a link to the xml class you are using so that someone could duplicate the problem and look into it.

 

I suspect that media:group becomes media->group or 'media:group'. But echoing out the data would provide the definitive answer.