str_replace() issues

[11t1]

I'm having issues when trying to parse an XML feed via PHP. I'm getting it to display alright, but there are embedded images in the XML, like <img src="whatever"> and so when it renders as HTML it prints the tags to the screen, not the images.

 

I tried this:

 

$newdesc0 = $item['description'];

$newdesc1 = str_replace("<", "\<", $newdesc0);

$newdesc2 = str_replace(">", "\>", $newdesc1);

 

and about a hundred permutations thereof to no avail. Where am I going wrong?

[trq]

Easiest to use htmlspecialchars_decode().

[11t1]

Thank you, indeed. I wasn't even aware of that function.

 

Now that I've slept a bit, I realize I was working on the wrong include file (they have deceptively similar names), but this solution's more elegant than the one I was thinking of.

 

Much appreciated.