Question

I generate a lot of posts in WordPress from an XML file. The worry: accented characters.

The header of the stream is:

<? Xml version = "1.0" encoding = "ISO-8859-15"?>

Here is the complete flux : http://flux.netaffiliation.com/rsscp.php?maff=177053821BA2E13E910D54

My site is in utf8.

So I use the function utf8_encode … but that does not solve the problem, the accents are always misunderstood.

Does anyone have an idea?

EDIT 04-10-2011 18:02 (french hour) :

Here is the complete flux : http://flux.netaffiliation.com/rsscp.php?maff=177053821BA2E13E910D54

Here is my code :

/**
 * parse an rss flux from netaffiliation and convert each item to posts
 * @var $flux = external link
 * @return bool
 */
private function parseFluxNetAffiliation($flux)
{
    $content = file_get_contents($flux);
    $content = iconv("iso-8859-15", "utf-8", $content);

    $xml = new DOMDocument;
    $xml->loadXML($content);

    //get the first link : http://www.netaffiliation.com
    $link = $xml->getElementsByTagName('link')->item(0);
    //echo $link->textContent;

    //we get all items and create a multidimentionnal array
    $items = $xml->getElementsByTagName('item');

    $offers = array();
    //we walk items
    foreach($items as $item)
    {
        $childs = $item->childNodes;

        //we walk childs
        foreach($childs as $child)
        {
            $offers[$child->nodeName][] = $child->nodeValue;
        }

    }
    unset($offers['#text']);

    //we create one article foreach offer
    $nbrPosts = count($offers['title']);

    if($nbrPosts <= 0) 
    {
        echo self::getFeedback("Le flux ne continent aucune offre",'error');
        return false;
    }

    $i = 0;
    while($i < $nbrPosts)
    {
        // Create post object
        $description = '<p>'.$offers['description'][$i].'</p><p><a href="'.$offers['link'][$i].'" target="_blank">'.$offers['link'][$i].'</a></p>';

        $my_post = array(
            'post_title' => $offers['title'][$i],
            'post_content' => $description,
            'post_status' => 'publish',
            'post_author' => 1,
            'post_category' => array(self::getCatAffiliation())
        );

        // Insert the post into the database
        if(!wp_insert_post($my_post));;

        $i++;
    }

    echo self::getFeedback("Le flux a généré {$nbrPosts} article(s) depuis le flux NetAffiliation dans la catégorie affiliation",'updated');
    return false;

}

All the posts are generated but… the accented chars are ugly. You can see the result here: http://monsieur-mode.com/test/

Answer 1

mb_convert_encoding()saves my life.

Here is my solution :

    $content = preg_replace('/ encoding="ISO-8859-15"/is','',$content);
    $content = mb_convert_encoding($content,"UTF-8");