Decode XML characters from RSS XML document

[the182guy]

Hi all,

 

My PHP script takes an RSS feed URL and parses the content to the database.

 

I am using simplexml_load_string to parse the XML string to a DOM.

 

The problem is the RSS feed could be any encoding.. UTF-8, ISO etc. I want to be able to pass my XML string through something that will decode all those symbols and encodings to normal characters.

 

Anyone know of a function for this? I've been searching for ages ???

 

Cheers

[sloth456]

umm there are several decode functions like utf8_decode() etc.

 

If there's a way you can parse out the type of encoding, then just use an if statement that says if it's UTF8 use this decoding method, it it's ISO do this, etc.