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Asked: 2026-05-27T02:35:14+00:00

I am developing a Facebook Iframe application using PHP which opens an RSS feed

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I am developing a Facebook Iframe application using PHP which opens an RSS feed from another site and displays a selected item from the feed. The RSS feed if UTF-8 encoded, however when I display the selected item I get the characters displayed as ISO-8859 whatever.

Example: “Don’t” instead of “Don’t”

This is my working code:

 $doc = new DOMDocument();
  $doc->load('https://www.otherwebsite.com/rss.php');

  foreach ($doc->getElementsByTagName('item') as $node) {
            $title = $node->getElementsByTagName('title')->item(0)->nodeValue;
            if ($title == $chinese->getAnimal()){
              $horoscope = $node->getElementsByTagName('description')->item(0)->nodeValue;
           }      
  }    
  echo '
Your horoscope : ' . $horoscope . '
';
 }

I am using version 5.2 of PHP. Any questions or suggestions will be gratefully accepted, I am still learning PHP so I may have missed something obvious to a more skilled practitioner.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Ensure you have a proper html header and meta for UTF-8 on your webpage i.e.:

    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC '-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN' 'http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd'>
<html xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml' xml:lang='eng' lang='en'>
<head>
<meta http-equiv='Content-Type' content='text/html; charset=utf-8' />
<title>WAMP</title>
<meta name='Description' content='Website Under Construction' />
</head>
<body>
CONTENT
</body>
</html>

    Also try casting the string to UTF-8 before echoing it.

    $horoscope = utf8_encode("Your Horoscope : $horoscope");
echo $horoscope;
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