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:

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The ph

Answer 1

Read up on http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.html-entity-decode.php

That & symbol is a html code so you can easily decode it.

Answer 2

Super simple solution is to have the characters decoded when the page is loaded

Simply copy/paste the following at the beginning of the script

 header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8');

 mb_internal_encoding('UTF-8');  
 mb_http_output('UTF-8'); 
 mb_http_input('UTF-8');  
 mb_regex_encoding('UTF-8');

Reference: http://php.net/manual/en/function.mb-internal-encoding.php comment left by webfav at web dot de