parser error : Start tag expected, '

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I am using PHP for the first time. I am using the php sample for uploading image on ebay sandbox. I am getting the following error on running the PHP file: ``` PHP Warning: simplexml_load_string(): Entity: line 1: parser error : Start tag expected, '<' not found in /home/nish/stuff/market place/test/php5/UploadImage/UploadSiteHostedPictures.php on line 69 PHP Warning: simplexml_load_string(): HTTP/1.1 200 OK in /home/nish/stuff/market place/test/php5/UploadImage/UploadSiteHostedPictures.php on line 69 PHP Warning: simplexml_load_string(): ^ in /home/nish/stuff/market place/test/php5/UploadImage/UploadSiteHostedPictures.php on line 69 PHP Notice: Trying to get property of non-object in /home/nish/stuff/market place/test/php5/UploadImage/UploadSiteHostedPictures.php on line 92 PHP Notice: Trying to get property of non-object in /home/nish/stuff/market place/test/php5/UploadImage/UploadSiteHostedPictures.php on line 93 PHP Notice: Trying to get property of non-object in /home/nish/stuff/…

Accepted Answer

The code you refer to has this line:

```
//curl_setopt($connection, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1 ); // Uncomment these for debugging
```

it seems like you uncommented these. This will result in getting the HTTP header in your response. Which is OK for debugging, but it will create an XML parse error in `simplexml_load_string`.

Either comment it out again or put `0` as its value.

parser error : Start tag expected, '<' not found

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