Convio API Encoding Error

robert@zakongroup.com

In using PHP to retrieve a C360 record via the Constituent API, we are seeing an occasional error with the following bit of PHP code:

// access API & retrieve content into $buffer

...

// Parse data

try {

$xmlE = @new SimpleXMLEelement($buffer);

} catch(Exception $e) {

print 'Parsing of buffer failed';

}

The problem has been tracked down to a constituent's name containing a diacritical. PHP's SimpleXML functions expects the XML provided to be in UTF-8, which apparently is not the case with Convio's API. We have managed to work around this by forcing an encoding.

JeremyGP

And that's probably about all you can do. Thanks for the tip, definitely useful to me.