Utf8 errors

[Danny620]

Im using this code

 

	//create message with token gained before
	$post =  array(
    	'access_token' => $access_token,
    	'message' => html_entity_decode($description, ENT_QUOTES),
    	'name' => html_entity_decode(strip_tags($post_title, ENT_QUOTES)),
    	'caption' => html_entity_decode(strip_tags($post_title, ENT_QUOTES)),
    	'link' => $_SESSION['blog_base'].'article/'.$post_url.'/',
    	'description' => html_entity_decode($description, ENT_QUOTES),
    	'picture' => 'http://www.socialnewsoffice.com/uploads/'.$article_img);

 

to publish information to facebook however when i publish this i get this

 

Leasing receive another Great Testimonial from�Steve Brennan at�MCM Insurance Group\r\nTo whom it may concern\r\nEarlier this year we to...

 

any ideas?

[El Chupacodra]

Usually the character set is wrong or not set.

Check and doublecheck that you have UTF8 as character set everywhere.

Is that info from the database?

You could run a quick SQL query to get all the character sets - the server has one and the database another.

 

Type this as an SQL query in PHPMyAdmin or anything else you use: show variables like '%char%'

It will list all your character sets.

Most likely one is ISO8859.

[xyph]

http://php.net/manual/en/function.html-entity-decode.php

 

html_entity_decode($description, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8')

 

The manual says it defaults to 'UTF-8', but that's only in PHP5.4. Previously, it was 'ISO-8859-1'