Yahoo API + PHP5: "Unknown encoding utf-8"?

[Philipp Lenssen]

I want to try the new Yahoo API, but I get the PHP5 error message

Unknown encoding "utf-8"

in the marked line below...
(After that, applying the Xpath will fail as symptom of the first bug.)

function showImages($q)
{

$image_url = 'http://api.search.yaho o.com/' .
'ImageSearchSer vice/V1/imageSearch?' .
'appid=YahooDem o&query=' . urlencode($q) . '&results=5';

$dom = new domdocument; // ERROR!

$dom->load($image_ur l);
$xpath = new domxpath($dom);

$xNodes = $xpath->query('//Result');
foreach ($xNodes as $xNode)
{
// ...
}
}


Can anyone help? I tried some encoding workarounds but nothing
worked... note my direct file access with PHP5 is disabled on my server
(using file() or fopen()).

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[R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah]

Re: Yahoo API + PHP5: "Unknow n encoding utf-8"?

Philipp Lenssen wrote:[color=blue]
> I want to try the new Yahoo API, but I get the PHP5 error message
>
> Unknown encoding "utf-8"[/color]
<snip>

This is not an answer to your question. FWIW, I did look at the SDK
<http://developer.yahoo .net/download/download.html> and the PHP code
written by Rasmus Lerdorf. I have the *humble opinion* that this code
could have been written better--with better standard and style.

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[Philipp Lenssen]

Re: Yahoo API + PHP5: &quot;Unknow n encoding utf-8&quot;?

R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah wrote:
[color=blue]
> Philipp Lenssen wrote:[color=green]
> > I want to try the new Yahoo API, but I get the PHP5 error message
> >
> > Unknown encoding "utf-8"[/color]
> <snip>
>
> This is not an answer to your question. FWIW, I did look at the SDK
> <http://developer.yahoo .net/download/download.html> and the PHP code
> written by Rasmus Lerdorf. I have the *humble opinion* that this code
> could have been written better--with better standard and style.
>[/color]

You might be right. I just posted something in my blog on that today:

http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2005-03-03-n69.html

I wish there'd be a working PHP5 sample using the more modern native
DOM/XML classes.

[Philipp Lenssen]

Re: Yahoo API + PHP5: &quot;Unknow n encoding utf-8&quot;?

Philipp Lenssen wrote:
[color=blue]
>[color=green]
> > Philipp Lenssen wrote:[color=darkred]
> > > I want to try the new Yahoo API, but I get the PHP5 error message
> > >
> > > Unknown encoding "utf-8"[/color]
> > <snip>
> >[/color][/color]

Update; I sort of solved it, with a hack:

http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2005-03-04-html#n49