Comments on: Displaying HTML Entities in Magpie RSS

By: Matthew Carroll

Matthew Carroll — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 02:54:16 +0000

This fix didn’t work for me. What did, was defining the output encoding before loading Magpie, as follows:

define(’MAGPIE_OUTPUT_ENCODING’, ‘UTF-8′); require(’magpierss/rss_fetch.inc’);

Mapgie then spits out UTF-8 encoded characters, which can be converted to HTML entities quite easily, e.g.:

$output = htmlentities($output, ENT_QUOTES, “UTF-8″);

This solution doesn’t require hacking the Magpie source.

Matthew

By: Tim Houghton

Tim Houghton — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 21:30:10 +0000

Thanks Matthew! Your ‘define’ solution worked brilliantly for me (although I had to change the curly single quotes in your comment to straight single quotes, but I’m sure that was a result of the commenting system here and not your intention).

By: Todd Kempf

Todd Kempf — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 21:50:39 +0000

Matthew - thanks for your post you htmlentities call was exactly what I needed…..

By: Stuart

Stuart — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 15:45:09 +0000

We have updated our page based on Matthew’s tip with a few modifications. Hope it helps!

By: Ian

Ian — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 16:53:03 +0000

Thank you very much for posting this…I believe you’ve just saved me a TON of time.

By: Chris Kelley

Chris Kelley — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 08:35:22 +0000

Excellent solution - worked perfectly, thanks for saving me the headache.

By: Konrad Burman

Konrad Burman — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 05:55:11 +0000

Sweet, I was looking for exactly this solution! Thank you!

By: Luis Mauricio

Luis Mauricio — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 04:02:26 +0000

sweet and easy fix–thanks Nathan and Matthew!

By: Cliff

Cliff — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 18:51:15 +0000

Thanks man… it really did the job!

By: Elmar

Elmar — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 02:02:36 +0000

Thanks. Exactly what i needed … after i realized, that magpierss was killing my german umlauts

By: Hein

Hein — Sun, 04 May 2008 17:11:38 +0000

Great work! Thanks!

By: dev

dev — Sat, 31 May 2008 11:11:13 +0000

thanks for the quick fix!

By: Esther

Esther — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:07:45 +0000

This worked for me too… Excellent!

By: Arnau

Arnau — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 16:40:52 +0000

Thank you!

By: Simon

Simon — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 18:02:33 +0000

great thanks, worked for me

By: Abed

Abed — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 17:02:26 +0000

My thanks to Nathan & Matthew. Precisely what I was looking for.