How to clean RSS <description> HTML Code?

When I get the RSS code via an API (they post to m server) i do something like this:



$this_news=htmlentities($this_news);

$this_news=mysql_real_escape_string($this_news); echo "X2:".strlen($this_news);
$this_title=mysql_real_escape_string($this_title);



however the news are looking like:

http://latinotimes.com/softgroups/53331-international-youth-soccer-s-dallas-cup-set-to-start-in-new-cotton-bowl-home.html

they do not convert that shi... RSS HTML code to real html code

 

RSS HTML is not HTML, I bet you have something like this:

<item>
<title>Google SEO Speed And Penalizing Factors</title>
<description>Blah</description>
<link>
http://chkme.com/read-google-seo-speed-and-penalizing-factors
</link>
<guid isPermaLink="true">
http://chkme.com/read-google-seo-speed-and-penalizing-factors
</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 17 Mar 13 22:05:14 -0600</pubDate>
</item>

HTML:

So assuming that:
$f = file_get_contents("website.tld/rss.xml");

You can try:
$array = json_decode(json_encode((array) simplexml_load_string($f)),1);

So then your $array at a certain point will be like this:
['title'] = "Your Title";
['description'] = "Body text here";
['link'] = "yourlink.html";
etc...


So basic PHP and HTML here, ie:

<h3><?php echo $array['title];?></h3>
<p><?php echo $array['description'];?></p>
<hr><p align="right"><small><a href="<?php echo $array['link'];?>">Read More</a></small></p>

PHP:

Basically and in few words, RSS is not HTML formatted. If the API you are calling are returning HTML Code but encoded, well you will have to use html_entity_decode and not htmlentities.

But once again, mine are just examples and without an idea of how the API return you data I cannot exactly give you a right answer/solution.

 

to remove the html from the description we have the php.net/strip_tags function!

 

Eric, do you think he want to transform HTML in RSS or HTML in RSS? I am lost!

 

Im lost to, just due the fact he doesn't respond quick to given answers so i have no idea....