Re converting html $rsquo; to xml acceptable character

[Ajarwe]

Hi,
I am getting SOAP ERROR:Encoding when i pass the html file soap function.I found that it is because of ’ is not acceptable by SOAP function.How to i convert html entity to xml..I have tried html_entity_decode,htmlspecialchars_decode,UTF*_decode.But nothing works for me..Pls suggest any other way

[MarPlo]

Hi,
If it is only ’, try replace it directly:

$string = str_replace('’', "'", $string);

[Ajarwe]

Hi MarPlo,
Thanks for your reply.Like ’ there are many special characters which are not supported by xml..so I can not go with str_replace.Pls suggest any other solution..

Thanks
Ajarwe

[MarPlo]

Hi,
Last solution i suggest is to combine htmlspecialchars_decode() and str_replace(), like this:

$string = htmlspecialchars_decode(str_replace(array('’', '"'), array("'", '"'), $string));

You can add also other characters to replace in arrays in str_replace(), in their order.