php rss grabber strange characters

[David Mehler]

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.

[Aziz Saleh]

Post by David Mehler
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?
<?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.
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