removing strange characters from php string

Question

this is what i have right now

Drawing an RSS feed into the php, the raw xml from the rss feed reads:

Paul’s Confidence

The ph

Answer 1

Use the below PHP code to remove

html_entity_decode(mb_convert_encoding(stripslashes($name), "HTML-ENTITIES", 'UTF-8'))

Answer 2

It does not work You need to use $arr1 = str_split($str) then foreach and echo($arr1[$k]) This will show you exactly which characters are written into the string.

Answer 3

1.The order of the strings in the $find array is significant. 2.This string "‘" should contain a tilde and look like three characters. If I save the .php file with my Genie editor it gits changed to just two characters "â€". 3.This is a useful reference https://www.i18nqa.com/debug/utf8-debug.html

<?php
$text = "‘’“â€1‘ 2’ 3â€â€œâ€™â€˜ 4’ 5 6 7’ ‘, ’, “, â€â€˜";
echo($text . "<br>");
$find = array("‘", "’", "“", "â€");
$replace = array("‘", "’", "“", "”");
$text = str_replace($find, $replace, $text);
echo($text);
?>

Answer 4

Try this:

$newtitle = html_entity_decode($newtitle, ENT_QUOTES, "UTF-8")

If this is not the solution browse this page http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.html-entity-decode.php

Answer 5

Please Try this. 


$find[] = '/“/' //'“'; // left side double smart quote
$find[] = '/”/' //'â€'; // right side double smart quote
$find[] = '/‘/' //'‘'; // left side single smart quote
$find[] = '/’/' //'’'; // right side single smart quote
$find[] = '/â€&#133/'  //'…'; // elipsis
$find[] = '/‖/' //'—'; // em dash
$find[] = '/–/' //'–'; // en dash

$replace[] = '“' // '"';
$replace[] = '”' // '"';
$replace[] = '‘' // "'";
$replace[] = '’' // "'";
$replace[] = '⋯' // "...";
$replace[] = '—' // "-";
$replace[] = '–' // "-";

$text = str_replace($find, $replace, $text);

Answer 6

I solved the problem. Seems to be a short fix rather than the larger issue, but it works.

$newtitle = str_replace('’', "'", $newtitle);

I also found this useful snippit that may help others with same problem;

<?
$find[] = '“'; // left side double smart quote
$find[] = 'â€'; // right side double smart quote
$find[] = '‘'; // left side single smart quote
$find[] = '’'; // right side single smart quote
$find[] = '…'; // elipsis
$find[] = '—'; // em dash
$find[] = '–'; // en dash

$replace[] = '"';
$replace[] = '"';
$replace[] = "'";
$replace[] = "'";
$replace[] = "...";
$replace[] = "-";
$replace[] = "-";

$text = str_replace($find, $replace, $text);
?>

Thanks everyone for your time and consideration.