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Asked: 2026-05-20T23:03:29+00:00

I use cURL to get an rss feed from my own wordpress blog to

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I use cURL to get an rss feed from my own wordpress blog to display it as a “feed” sidebar and when I get the headers, all quotes appear as this : ’

The cURL code I use to get that is:

$ch = curl_init($feed_url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FAILONERROR, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_ENCODING, "");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 2);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TRANSFERTEXT, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 15);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
$content = curl_exec($ch);

The strange thing is that in my local server, it brings the quotes ok, but on the remote, it returns this seq.

The code I use to print out the “Feed” follows:

$x = new SimpleXmlElement($content);
    foreach ($x->channel->item as $entry) {
        echo "<li class='newsLI'><a href='$entry->link' title='$entry->title'>" . $entry->title . "</a></li>";
    }

and what I get, can be clearly seen in the bottom left side of the screen here:
http://www.inlinkz.com

Any ideas on where to start looking for an answer?

Thanks in advance!

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  1. Editorial Team
    1. You don’t have a DOCTYPE defined
    2. You aren’t setting the page’s content-type

    Adding the following lines to your code solved your problem (at least on my machine ;)):

    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

    (of course, this should be set to whatever definition you’re actually using)

    <meta http-equiv="content-type"
    content="text/html;charset=utf-8" />

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