[Phpug] Zend_feed and RTE

[Ken Guest]

if only you could configure $MAIL_CLIENT to ignore emails w excessive
signatures - and top posting...

k.

On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 1:44 PM, Kae Verens <kae at webworks.ie> wrote:

> Cormac Parle wrote:
> > Anyone know anything about zend_feed? Using it to process the news feed
> > from rte, but they have hex html entities (&#x20AC; for the euro symbol)
> > in the feed which are getting a bit mangled.
>
> there's no simple way at the moment. the usual suspects,
> html_entity_decode, et al. are simply not up to the task.
>
> i suspect that it's partly because the string encodes in hex instead of
> dec - html_entity_decode('&#8364;') works but
> html_entity_decode('&#x20AC;') doesn't.
>
> maybe you need to write a parser which converts hex2dec within the
> string before trying to decode?
>
> and yeah - the sig is a /bit/ excessive...
>
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