XML with BOM and PHP for Flash Gallery

["Konstantinos Christodoulakis" <alavastros@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello to all and Happy New Year !

I have a problem with UTF-8 chars in a flash movie !!!

I'm using an external XML for Flash Movie.
This XML constructed from the following PHP code:

Code:
<?php

      while ($list_result = $this->recordSet->setRow($result)) {

      $this->xml->roottag->curtag->add_subtag('category', array('name'
=> $this->recordSet->cdata = $list_result[0], 'description' => '',
'thumb' => '', 'allowed' => 'true') );

      $tag = &$this->xml->roottag->curtag->curtag;

                   
$this->xml->roottag->curtag->curtag->add_subtag('image',
array('filename'=> $this->recordSet->cdata = $list_result[5],
'productname'=> $this->recordSet->cdata = $list_result[1],
'productdescription'=> $this->recordSet->cdata = $list_result[2],
'productsubtitle'=> $this->recordSet->cdata = $list_result[3],
'productprice'=> $this->recordSet->cdata = $list_result[4]));
     }

      $xml_file = fopen($filename, "w" );
      $this->xml->write_file_handle( $xml_file );

   }

}
?>


I'm also using:

Code:
function write_file_handle( $fh, $write_header=1 )
    {
        if ($write_header) {
            fwrite( $fh, "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\"?>\n" );
        }
        # Start at the root and write out all of the tags
        $this->roottag->write_file_handle( $fh);
    }


The result is an XML file not saved as a UTF-8.

How can I save it as UTF-8 compatible with Flash Movie (whch uses BOM
UTF-8 XML Files as external sources)>

Is utf8_encode() a solution?
Which is the syntax for this?
How can I use it in my case?
I'm very confused as I'm new to PHP development.

My best reards,
Konstantinos







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