title: PHP Error: SimpleXMLElement::__construct()
body: <p>For some reason the script I use to get the feedburner count as a string to use around my site (http://ios-blog.co.uk) has stopped working :( This is the error that it throws out: </p>
  
  <pre><code>Warning: SimpleXMLElement::__construct() [simplexmlelement.--construct]: Entity: line 2:     parser error : Opening and ending tag mismatch: meta line 1 and HEAD in /home/connect.php on line 83
  
  Warning: SimpleXMLElement::__construct() [simplexmlelement.--construct]: &lt;TITLE&gt;301 Moved&lt;/TITLE&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt; in /home/connect.php on line 83
  
  Warning: SimpleXMLElement::__construct() [simplexmlelement.--construct]: ^ in /home/connect.php on line 83
  
  Warning: SimpleXMLElement::__construct() [simplexmlelement.--construct]: Entity: line 6: parser error : Opening and ending tag mismatch: HEAD line 1 and HTML in /home/connect.php on line 83
  
  Warning: SimpleXMLElement::__construct() [simplexmlelement.--construct]: &lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt; in /home/connect.php on line 83
  
  Warning: SimpleXMLElement::__construct() [simplexmlelement.--construct]: ^ in /home/connect.php on line 83
  
  Warning: SimpleXMLElement::__construct() [simplexmlelement.--construct]: Entity: line 7: parser error : Premature end of data in tag HTML line 1 in /home/connect.php on line 83
  
  Warning: SimpleXMLElement::__construct() [simplexmlelement.--construct]: in /home/connect.php on line 83
  
  Warning: SimpleXMLElement::__construct() [simplexmlelement.--construct]: ^ in /home/connect.php on line 83
  
  Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'Exception' with message 'String could not be parsed as XML' in /home/connect.php:83 Stack trace: #0 /home/connect.php(83): SimpleXMLElement-&gt;__construct('&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;me...') #1 {main} thrown in /home/connect.php on line 83
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This is the PHP that i am Using:</p>
  
  <pre><code>//get cool feedburner count
  $whaturl="http://api.feedburner.com/awareness/1.0/GetFeedData?uri=iosdevblog";
  
  //Initialize the Curl session
  $ch = curl_init();
  
  //Set curl to return the data instead of printing it to the browser.
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
  
  //Set the URL
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $whaturl);
  
  //Execute the fetch
  $data = curl_exec($ch);
  
  //Close the connection
  curl_close($ch);
  $xml = new SimpleXMLElement($data);
  $fb = $xml-&gt;feed-&gt;entry['circulation'];
  echo $fb;
  //end get cool feedburner count
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The file is large - where it says line <code>83</code> it relates to: <code>$xml = new SimpleXMLElement($data);</code></p>
  
  <p>Thanks for all help :)</p>