[SOLVED] prepairing string for xml

[djtozz]

Hi, I'm using a little scirpt that creates rss feeds for my mysql table.

works fine, except for the records that have a "&" in my table.

 

I've tried to following:

$caption = str_replace("&","and",$caption);

 

but this doesn't seems to work, can somebody help me with this please ?

 

Are there maybe other functions out there that can do the same?

(converting the 'illegal' characters from a variable to the right format for xml)

 

Thanks,

 

 

 

 

 

[Schlo_50]

Try this.

 

<?php
$caption = "I ate fish & chips for dinner";

$replaceCharacter = str_replace("&","and",$caption);

echo $replaceCharacter;
?>

[thebadbad]

I think htmlspecialchars() would do the job (converting & to &).

[Schlo_50]

If it's another function you're after, you could even try preg_replace().

[djtozz]

Thanks guys,

 

Schlo_50 : your solution worked for me, thank you

 

Thebadbad: htmlspecialchars was exactly what I was looking for!

 

Thanks a lot!