How about using
$rss= mb_convert_encoding($rss, 'HTML-ENTITIES', 'UTF-8'); instead of $rss=
mb_convert_encoding($rss, 'UTF-8', 'UTF-8');
On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 4:22 AM, Ashley Sheridan <ash@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
>
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