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Bill
Bill

Reputation: 23

In php, Prepare string and create XML/RSS Feed

I want to create my own RSS/XML feed. I fetch data from the database to display, but keep getting invalid character errors. If the string has an ampersand or other strange characters in it, the XML will be invalid.

I tried using urlencode and htmlentities, but these don't capture all possible characters which need to be escaped. Does anyone know of a PHP function which will prepare a string for XML output?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2563

Answers (2)

Vasil Dakov
Vasil Dakov

Reputation: 2039

For example:

function html_special_chars($str)
{
     return preg_replace(array('/&/', '/"/'), array('&', '"'), $str);
}

Upvotes: 0

Activist
Activist

Reputation: 196

htmlspecialchars should be enough. But don't forget to set the 3rd parameter (charset) to the character set matching the string charset.

Upvotes: 1

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