problem when parsing the " ' " character

[randomsai]

when i try to parse  for example, friend's, it comes out like this ..... "friend ’s"

any recommendations?

thanks in advance

 

does it have a function for special characters

btw the code looks like below:

 

<?PHP

HEADER('content-type: text/plain');

 

// define hooks to rss_parser class as xml functions do not allow object methods as handlers.

FUNCTION rss_start_element($parser, $name, $attributes) {

  GLOBAL $rss;

  $rss->start_element($parser, $name, $attributes);

}

 

FUNCTION rss_end_element($parser, $name) {

  GLOBAL $rss;

  $rss->end_element($parser, $name);

}

 

FUNCTION rss_character_data($parser, $data) {

  GLOBAL $rss;

  $rss->character_data($parser, $data);

}

 

 

CLASS rss_parser {

 

// constructor. setup parser options and handlers.

FUNCTION rss_parser() {

  $this->error = '';

  $this->file = '';

 

  $this->channel = ARRAY();

  $this->data = '';

  $this->stack = ARRAY();

  $this->num_items = 0;

 

  $this->xml_parser = XML_PARSER_CREATE();

  XML_SET_ELEMENT_HANDLER($this->xml_parser, "rss_start_element", "rss_end_element");

  XML_SET_CHARACTER_DATA_HANDLER($this->xml_parser, "rss_character_data");

}

 

FUNCTION character_data($parser, $data) {

  IF (EMPTY($this->data)) $this->data = TRIM($data);

  ELSE $this->data .= ' '.TRIM($data);             

}

 

FUNCTION start_element($parser, $name, $attrs) {

  SWITCH($name) {

    CASE 'RSS':

      BREAK;

 

    CASE 'CHANNEL':

      BREAK;

 

 

    CASE 'ITEM':

      ARRAY_PUSH($this->stack, $name);

      ARRAY_PUSH($this->stack, $this->num_items); // push item index.

      $this->item[$this->num_items] = ARRAY();

      $this->num_items++;

      BREAK;

 

    CASE 'TEXTINPUT':

      ARRAY_PUSH($this->stack, $name);

      BREAK;

 

    DEFAULT:

      ARRAY_PUSH($this->stack, $name);

      BREAK;

 

  } 

}

 

FUNCTION end_element($parser, $name) {

  SWITCH ($name) {

    CASE 'RSS':

      BREAK;

 

    CASE 'CHANNEL':

      BREAK;

 

 

    CASE 'ITEM':

      ARRAY_POP($this->stack);

      ARRAY_POP($this->stack);

      BREAK;

 

    CASE 'TEXTINPUT':

      ARRAY_POP($this->stack);

      BREAK;

 

    DEFAULT: // child element.

      $element = (IMPLODE("']['",$this->stack));     

      EVAL("\$this->channel['$element']=\$this->data;"); // this does all the hard work.

      ARRAY_POP($this->stack);

      $this->data = '';

      BREAK;

  }

}

 

 

 

FUNCTION parse() {

  IF (!($fp = @FOPEN($this->file, "r"))) {

    $this->error = "Could not open RSS source \"$this->file\".";

    RETURN FALSE;

  }

  WHILE ($data = FREAD($fp, 4096)) {

    IF (!XML_PARSE($this->xml_parser, $data, FEOF($fp))) {

      $this->error = SPRINTF("XML error: %s at line %d.",

        XML_ERROR_STRING(XML_GET_ERROR_CODE($this->xml_parser)),

        XML_GET_CURRENT_LINE_NUMBER($this->xml_parser));

      RETURN FALSE;

    }

  }

  XML_PARSER_FREE($this->xml_parser);

  RETURN TRUE;

}

 

 

 

} 

$rss = NEW rss_parser();

$rss->file = 'http://www.trinidadnews.net/rss.php';

$rss->parse() or DIE($rss->error);

IF ($rss->error) PRINT $rss->error;

 

PRINT_R($rss->channel);

 

$i =0;

do

{

$infoArray = $rss->channel;

$headline = $infoArray['ITEM'][$i]['TITLE'];

$description = $infoArray['ITEM'][$i]['DESCRIPTION'];

$date = $infoArray['ITEM'][$i]['PUBDATE'];

 

$con = mysql_connect("localhost", "root", "");

if (!$con)

  {

  die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());

  }

mysql_select_db("trinidadnews", $con);

mysql_query("INSERT INTO news (headline, description, date) VALUES ('$headline' , '$description' , '$date')");

 

mysql_close($con);

 

$i++;

}

 

while ($i<=15);

 

?>

[cags]

This post has probably been ignored for so long because of the large amount of code. If  posting code like this is necessary using the code tags will make people a lot more amiable/helpful.  I would guess (looking at your output) that the character in question is not a standard single quote or apostrophe character but rather one of the fancier formatted characters from a different character set (some form of Unicode, multi-byte character). I have myself ran into a problem with these when importing a table from the clipboard which has been copied from Microsoft Word. The way I fixed it was to find out exactly what character it was and replace them within the string.

[randomsai]

ok thanks alot for the help