RSS.PHP special characters problem

[werushka]

I am using a CMS system and in that there is rss.php file as below and in rss (firefox) the story headers ara not displayed correctly my browser just gets rid of special characters. I would really really really appreciate any help.

 

here is the code

 

<?php
// The source code packaged with this file is Free Software, Copyright (C) 2005 by
// Ricardo Galli <gallir at uib dot es>.
// It's licensed under the AFFERO GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE unless stated otherwise.
// You can get copies of the licenses here:
// 		http://www.affero.org/oagpl.html
// AFFERO GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE is also included in the file called "COPYING".

include_once('Smarty.class.php');
$main_smarty = new Smarty;

include('config.php');
include(mnminclude.'link.php');
include(mnminclude.'html1.php');
include(mnminclude.'search.php');
include_once(mnminclude.'smartyvariables.php');

if(!empty($_REQUEST['rows']))
$rows = $_REQUEST['rows'];
else $rows = 40;

if(!empty($_REQUEST['time'])) {
// Prepare for times
if(!($time = check_integer('time')))
	die;
$sql = "SELECT link_id, count(*) as votes FROM " . table_votes . ", " . table_links . " WHERE  ";
if ($time > 0) {
	$from = time()-$time;
	$sql .= "vote_date > FROM_UNIXTIME($from) AND ";
}
$sql .= "vote_link_id=link_id  AND link_status != 'discard' GROUP BY vote_link_id  ORDER BY votes DESC LIMIT $rows";

$last_modified = time();
$title = $main_smarty->get_config_vars('PLIGG_Visual_RSS_Recent') . ' ' . txt_time_diff($from);
$link_date = "";

} else {
// All the others
$tmpsearch = new Search;
if(isset($_REQUEST['search'])){
	$tmpsearch->searchTerm = sanitize($_REQUEST['search'], 3);
} else {
	$tmpsearch->searchTerm = '';
}
$search = $tmpsearch->get_search_clause();
// The link_status to search
if(!empty($_REQUEST['status'])) {
	$status = $_REQUEST['status'];
} else {
	// By default it searches on all
	if($search) $status = 'published';
	else $status = 'published';
}

switch ($status) {
	case 'published':
		$order_field = 'link_published_date';
		$link_date = 'published_date';
		$title = " / " . $main_smarty->get_config_vars("PLIGG_Visual_Published_News");
		break;
	case 'queued':
		$title = " / " . $main_smarty->get_config_vars("PLIGG_Visual_Pligg_Queued");
		$order_field = 'link_date';
		$link_date = "date";
		break;
	case 'all':
		$title = "";
		$order_field = 'link_date';
		$link_date = "date";
		break;
	default:
		$main_smarty->assign('tpl_center', '404error');
		$main_smarty->display($the_template . '/pligg.tpl');
		die();
		break;
}

if($status == 'all') {
	$from_where = "FROM " . table_links . " WHERE link_status!='discard' ";
} else {
	$from_where = "FROM " . table_links . " WHERE link_status='$status' ";
}
if(($cat=check_integer('category'))) {
	$from_where .= " AND link_category=$cat ";
	$category_name = $db->get_var("SELECT category_name FROM " . table_categories . " WHERE category_id = $cat AND category_lang='$dblang'");
	$title .= " / " . htmlspecialchars($category_name);
}

// This doesn't seem to work -kb
if($search) {
	$from_where .= $search;
	$title = htmlspecialchars($_REQUEST['search']);
}

$order_by = " ORDER BY $order_field DESC ";
$last_modified = $db->get_var("SELECT UNIX_TIMESTAMP(max($order_field)) links $from_where");
$sql = "SELECT link_id $from_where $order_by LIMIT $rows";
}

do_rss_header($title);

$link = new Link;
$links = $db->get_col($sql);
if ($links) {
foreach($links as $link_id) {
	$link->id=$link_id;
	$link->read();
	$category_name = $db->get_var("SELECT category_name FROM " . table_categories . " WHERE category_id = $link->category AND category_lang='$dblang'");

	$link->link_summary = str_replace("\n", "<br />", $link->link_summary);
	$link->link_summary = str_replace("’", "'", $link->link_summary);
	$link->link_summary = str_replace("–", "-", $link->link_summary);
	$link->link_summary = str_replace("—", "-", $link->link_summary);
	$link->link_summary = str_replace("“", "\"", $link->link_summary);
	$link->link_summary = str_replace("”", "\"", $link->link_summary);		

	$description = $link->link_summary;
	$description = strip_tags($description);
	$description = htmlspecialchars($description);

	$title = $link->title;
	$title = strip_tags($title);
	$title = htmlspecialchars($title);
	$link->title = str_replace("á", "a", $link->title);
	$link->title = str_replace("é", "e", $link->title);
	$link->title = str_replace("í", "i", $link->title);
	$link->title = str_replace("ó", "o", $link->title);
	$link->title = str_replace("ú", "u", $link->title);
	$link->title = str_replace("ñ", "n", $link->title);
	$link->title = str_replace("Á", "A", $link->title);
	$link->title = str_replace("É", "E", $link->title);
	$link->title = str_replace("Í", "I", $link->title);
	$link->title = str_replace("Ó", "O", $link->title);
	$link->title = str_replace("Ú", "U", $link->title);
	$link->title = str_replace("¿", "", $link->title);
	$link->title = str_replace("Ñ", "N", $link->title);

	echo "<item>\n";
	echo "<title><![CDATA[". onlyreadables(remove_error_creating_chars($title)) . "]]></title>\n";
	echo "<link>".getmyFullurl("storyURL", $link->category_safe_name($link->category), urlencode($link->title_url), $link->id)."</link>\n";
	echo "<comments>".getmyFullurl("storyURL", $link->category_safe_name($link->category), urlencode($link->title_url), $link->id)."</comments>\n";
	if (!empty($link_date))
		echo "<pubDate>".date('D, d M Y H:i:s T', $link->$link_date)."</pubDate>\n";
	else 
		echo "<pubDate>".date('D, d M Y H:i:s T', time())."</pubDate>\n";
	echo "<dc:creator>" . $link->username($link->author) . "</dc:creator>\n";
	echo "<category>" . htmlspecialchars($category_name) . "</category>\n";
	echo "<guid>".getmyFullurl("storyURL", $link->category_safe_name($link->category), urlencode($link->title_url), $link->id)."</guid>\n";
	echo "<description><![CDATA[" . $description . "<br/><br/>".$link->votes." ".$main_smarty->get_config_vars('PLIGG_Visual_RSS_Votes')." ]]></description>\n";
	echo "</item>\n\n";
}
}

do_rss_footer();

function do_rss_header($title) {
global $last_modified, $dblang, $main_smarty;
header('Content-type: text/xml; charset=ISO-8859-9', true);
echo '<?phpxml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-9"?'.'>' . "\n";
echo '<rss version="2.0" '."\n";
echo 'xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"'."\n";
echo 'xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"'."\n";
echo 'xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"'."\n";
echo '>'. "\n";
echo '<channel>'."\n";
echo '<title>'.htmlspecialchars($main_smarty->get_config_vars("PLIGG_Visual_Name")).$title.'</title>'."\n";
echo '<link>'.my_base_url.my_pligg_base.'</link>'."\n";
echo '<description>'.$main_smarty->get_config_vars("PLIGG_Visual_RSS_Description").' '.$link->votes.' votes</description>'."\n";
echo '<pubDate>'.date('D, d M Y H:i:s T', $last_modified).'</pubDate>'."\n";
echo '<language>'.$dblang.'</language>'."\n";
}

function do_rss_footer() {
echo "</channel>\n</rss>\n";
}

function onlyreadables($string) {
  for ($i=0;$i<strlen($string);$i++) {
   $chr = $string{$i};
   $ord = ord($chr);
   if ($ord<32 or $ord>126) {
     $chr = "~";
     $string{$i} = $chr;
   }
  }
  return str_replace("~", "", $string);
}
?>