Re: strange character

On Mon, 2015-02-23 at 23:13 +0300, hadi wrote: > Im downloading feed from the internet. Im getting strange character (–) im > not able to get rid of it. > I tried to use preg_replace(). But not helping > > Here is my code > > <?php > > error_reporting(E_ALL); > ini_set("display_errors", 1); > > > require 'database.php'; > > $url = "http://www.sahafah.net/rss.php"; > > > $rss = file_get_contents($url); > > ini_set('mbstring.substitute_character', "none"); > $rss= mb_convert_encoding($rss, 'UTF-8', 'UTF-8'); > > $rss = simplexml_load_string($rss); > > > if($rss) > { > $items = $rss->channel->item; > foreach($items as $item) > { > > $title = $item->title; > $link = $item->link; > $published_on = $item->pubDate; > $description = $item->description; > $category = $item->category; > $guid = $item->guid; > > > $pattern = "<"; > > $posfrist = strpos($item->description, $pattern); > > if($posfrist !== false) > > { > preg_match('/.*</',$item->description,$match); > $match1 = str_replace("<","",$match); > echo '<pre>';print_r($match1);echo '</pre>'; > > $string2 = $item->description; > preg_match('/http.*.jpg/',$string2,$match2); > echo '<pre>';print_r($match2);echo '</pre>'; > > } > } > } > > > > > > > ?> > > Hi Hadi, You've set the convert encoding on the feed you're getting, but there are a couple of things to check. First, is the PHP script itself saved as UTF-8. If it isn't, this can have an effect on the PHP parser where it attempts to guess encodings of things. If you're seeing those characters output in your browser, it's probably also worth checking that you've set a UTF-8 output header as well, otherwise it defaults (typically) to something like ISO-8859-1. Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk