simplexml &ndash problem

Hi,

I'm copying a text element from an xml file into an php array but the &ndash character is being replaced with this: –

I tried html_entity_decode() but it had no effect.

 

You can try some thing like this.

Let $str be the string

$str = "Your original string";
$str = htmlentities($str);
$str = html_entity_decode($str);


If this does not work .. create a function 

function unhtmlentities($string)
{
    // replace numeric entities
    $string = preg_replace('~&#x([0-9a-f]+);~ei', 'chr(hexdec("\\1"))', $string);
    $string = preg_replace('~&#([0-9]+);~e', 'chr("\\1")', $string);
    // replace literal entities
    $trans_tbl = get_html_translation_table(HTML_ENTITIES);
    $trans_tbl = array_flip($trans_tbl);
    return strtr($string, $trans_tbl);
}

and pass the string to remove the html entities 

PHP:

 

Thanks for your help HivelocityDD, but amazingly, none of that worked!

 

This is how I'm copying the xml data into a php array:

$sxe =  simplexml_load_file("gamecat.xml");
	
$arrFeeds = array();
	
foreach($sxe->xpath('//game') as $item) {

	$row = simplexml_load_string($item->asXML());
		
	foreach ($row->xpath('//game') as $v) {
		if($v){
			$itemRSS = array (
				'gameid' => $item->gameid,
				'name' => unhtmlentities($item->gamename),
				'desc' => unhtmlentities($item->longdesc),
				'download' => $item->downloadurl,
			);
				
	
			array_push($arrFeeds, $itemRSS);	
		}
	}
}

Code (markup):

Could it be I'm doing it wrong, thus causing this problem?

My code is working fine except for those special characters.

I don't want to remove the html entities, I just want them to show up properly when I display the web page.

 

I got it working with a more direct approach.

In case anyone else has this problem here's my function:

function unhtmlentities($str)
{
	$return = '';
	$final = '';
	$search = array('–','—','t’','é','è','ó','…','®','“','”','™');
	$replace = array('–','—','’','é','è','ó','…','®','“','”','™');
	$return = str_replace($search,$replace,$str);

	$ret_array = preg_split('//', $return);
	
	foreach ($ret_array as $val) {
		if (ord($val) < 128) $final .= $val;
	}

	return $final;
}

Code (markup):

It's limited to the specific encoded characters that are in my xml document so HivelocityDD's function is a better universal solution. It just doesn't seem to work, unfortunately.