Slow going on my latest plugin…not much spare time for development, and we have to pay the bills, right? There were a couple of issues I needed solved, and I went to the web to find the answers, just like always. The first thing I needed to do was parse an XML result. Actually, “parsing” was just the beginning of what I needed to do. I actually needed to store the XML in a structure so that I could do a lot of different things with the data. I found this great article (and class) over at DevArticles.com that gave me exactly what I needed. Sure, I could have written this myself, but why bother when someone else has already posted the solution, right? First issue solved.
Once I’d broken the data down, I needed to use some of it. Not a problem, except that you get some really weird characters if your results contain quotes, double quotes, etc. Here are some of the ones I received: “, â€, ‘, and ’. This post has a nice little array set up to take care of those issues. I implemented it, and it works beautifully.
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