RSS Encoding converter script..

Hangin' Around Joined: Sep 10, 2005 Posts: 48

Hello !

I would like to change an RSS script encoding from iso-8859-2 to UTF-8, so it's rendered proprely within phpnuke portal ( which is also UTF- Cool

Looking at php.net tutorials, i came up with a small script, which according to my fairly limited knowledge of php should work..

Code:

<?php





$lines = file('http://www.rtvslo.si/feeds/00.xml');





$feed=fopen("test.xml","w");


foreach ($lines as $line_num => $line) {


  $line= str_replace("encoding=\"iso-8859-2\"", "encoding=\"UTF-8\"", $line);


  


   echo "". htmlspecialchars($line) . "<br />\n";


   fprintf($feed, "" . htmlspecialchars($line) . "<br />\n");


   


}





fclose($feed);





?>

After trying to open test.xml i see this..

XML Parsing Error: not well-formed
Line Number 1, Column 1:<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
^

My question is whether there is any possibilty to make this work ?

Thanks, guys !

Posted: Sat May 20, 2006 3:43 pm

I am not sure it is possible to change the encoding 'on the fly'. I think you would have to first decode to the original encoding and either store it temporarily as a temp file or data construct like a $variable and use that as the base for the new encoding to re-encode it.
Or find out what the exact character differences are between the two and write something to work with that.

Posted: Sat May 20, 2006 5:34 pm

Well, what i am trying to do here is read from the encoding..
change the header ( and if required all other necessary characters ) and then save it as some other file..

The thing is when i attempt to save it to another file, which would be then the modified feed phpnuke would use, but i keep on getting this error.. xml feed is not well formatted.... I am wondering why this keeps on happening... and also
whether this "export" method can be actually modified so it does what i want it to ?

thanks for your replies

Posted: Sat May 20, 2006 6:29 pm

You may want to look at this
http://www.greywyvern.com/php

Posted: Sat May 20, 2006 6:31 pm

OK. I have managed to look through php.net manual a bit and realise what foolish mistakes i have made Embarassed

.

It works OK now..

I just decided to post the code i used. I might be of some use to someone..

Code:

<?php





// open the RSS feed you wish to use





$lines = file('http://www.rtvslo.si/feeds/00.xml');





//file, where the new RSS will be..


$feed=fopen("test.xml","w");





foreach ($lines as $line_num => $line) {





// replace all the characters with the appropriate ones





  $line= str_replace("encoding=\"iso-8859-2\"", "encoding=\"UTF-8\"", $line);


  $line= str_replace("ľ", "ž", $line);


  $line= str_replace("ą", "š", $line);


  $line= str_replace("č", "č", $line);


  $line= str_replace("©", "Š", $line);


  $line= str_replace("®", "Ž", $line);


   


   //outputs to the file


   


fprintf($feed, "%s", $line);


}





fclose($feed);





?>

Thanks again for snappy response..

Posted: Sat May 20, 2006 8:27 pm

Thanks for letting us know you are now working - great job!