Warning DOMDocument loadHTML htmlParseEntityRef expecting in Entity

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html   file get contents  http   www somesite com       dom   new DOMDocument     dom- gt loadHTML  html    echo  dom    throws  Warning  DOMDocument  loadHTML    htmlParseEntityRef  expecting     in Entity  Catchable fatal error  Object of class DOMDocument could not be converted to string in test php on line 10

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There are 2 errors  the second is because  dom is no string but an object and thus cannot be  echoed   The first error is a warning from loadHTML  caused by invalid syntax of the html document to load  probably an  amp   ampersand  used as parameter separator and not masked as entity with  amp     You ignore and supress this error message  not the error  just the message   by calling the function with the error control operator      http   www php net manual en language operators errorcontrol php      dom- gt loadHTML  html

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replace the simple   dom- gt loadHTML  html     with the more robust      libxml use internal errors true    if    DOM- gt loadHTML  page                  errors             foreach  libxml get errors   as  error                  errors   error- gt message   lt br  gt                      libxml clear errors            print  libxml errors  lt br gt  errors           return

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I would bet that if you looked at the source of http   www somesite com  you would find special characters that haven t been converted to HTML  Maybe something like this    lt a href   script php foo bar amp hello world  gt link lt  a gt    Should be   lt a href   script php foo bar amp amp hello world  gt link lt  a gt

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Regardless of the echo  which would need to be replaced with print r or var dump   if an exception is thrown the object should stay empty   DOMNodeList Object       Solution   Set recover to true  and strictErrorChecking to false   content   file get contents  url     doc   new DOMDocument     doc- gt recover   true   doc- gt strictErrorChecking   false   doc- gt loadHTML  content    Use php s entity-encoding on the markup s contents  which is a most common error source

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Even after this my code is working fine   so i just removed all warning messages with this statement at line 1    lt  php error reporting E ERROR     gt

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To evaporate the warning  you can use libxml use internal errors true      create new DOMDocument  document   new  DOMDocument  1 0    UTF-8        set error level  internalErrors   libxml use internal errors true       load HTML  document- gt loadHTML  html       Restore error level libxml use internal errors  internalErrors

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html   file get contents  http   www somesite com       dom   new DOMDocument     dom- gt loadHTML htmlspecialchars  html     echo  dom    try this

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The reason for your fatal error is DOMDocument does not have a   toString   method and thus can not be echo ed    You re probably looking for  echo  dom- gt saveHTML

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Another possibile solution is   sContent   htmlspecialchars  sHTML    oDom   new DOMDocument     oDom- gt loadHTML  sContent   echo html entity decode  oDom- gt saveHTML

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dom- gt  loadHTML  html     This is incorrect  use this instead     dom- gt loadHTML  html

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Another possibile solution is maybe your file is ASCII type file just change the type of your files

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I know this is an old question  but if you ever want ot fix the malformed   amp   signs in your HTML  You can use code similar to this    page   file get contents  http   www example com     page   preg replace    s          trim  page    fixAmps  page  0    dom- gt loadHTML  page     function fixAmps  amp  html   offset         positionAmp   strpos  html    amp     offset        positionSemiColumn   strpos  html        positionAmp 1         string   substr  html   positionAmp   positionSemiColumn- positionAmp 1        if   positionAmp     false       If an   amp   can be found          if   positionSemiColumn     false       If no     can be found               html   substr replace  html    amp amp     positionAmp  1      Replace straight away            else if  preg match    amp    0-9    A-Z a-z 0-9         string      0       If a standard escape cannot be found               html   substr replace  html    amp amp     positionAmp  1      This mean we need to escape the   amp   sign              fixAmps  html   positionAmp 5      Recursive call from the new position            else               fixAmps  html   positionAmp 1      Recursive call from the new position

[php] Warning: DOMDocument::loadHTML(): htmlParseEntityRef: expecting ';' in Entity,

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