Re: php rss grabber strange characters

On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 7:17 PM, David Mehler <dave.mehler@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > Can someone take a look at the below code and tell me what it's problem is? > > What it's suppose to do is grab three news items from wordpress's rss > feed. This it does. The issue is in the output I get strange > characters a circumflexes I'd like to know why and if I can fix this? > > Here's my code: > > <?php > > $rss = new DOMDocument(); > $rss->load('http://wordpress.org/news/feed/'); > > $feed = array(); > foreach ($rss->getElementsByTagName('item') as $node) { > $item = array ( > 'title' => > $node->getElementsByTagName('title')->item(0)->nodeValue, > 'desc' => > $node->getElementsByTagName('description')->item(0)->nodeValue, > 'link' => > $node->getElementsByTagName('link')->item(0)->nodeValue, > 'date' => > $node->getElementsByTagName('pubDate')->item(0)->nodeValue, > ); > array_push($feed, $item); > } > > $limit = 5; > for($x=0;$x<$limit;$x++) { > $title = str_replace(' & ', ' &amp; ', > $feed[$x]['title']); > $link = $feed[$x]['link']; > $description = $feed[$x]['desc']; > $date = date('l F d, Y', strtotime($feed[$x]['date'])); > echo '<p><strong><a href="'.$link.'" > title="'.$title.'">'.$title.'</a></strong><br > />'; > echo '<small><em>Posted on > '.$date.'</em></small></p>'; > echo '<p>'.$description.'</p>'; > } > ?> > > Thanks. > Dave. > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > Make sure that the page you are displaying this on is UTF8 (which is what the feed is based on).