HTML Block Variable?

[Anon]

I use blogger and I'm trying to get the Blogger posts captured into a PHP variable. The way blogger works is that it creates your webpage replace blogger tags with your content and then uploads it onto your server.

Why is this important?

Well lets say I want to do the following:

$foo = <$BlogItemBody$>;

where <$BlogItemBody$> is:
<a href="http://www.blogger.com">Blogger</a> is great.

Obviously all those quotes munge up PHP.

And since Blogger just builds the page dumbly I can't interact with <$BlogItemBody$> so I can't escape out those odd characters.

Someone told me to put it into an HTML Block Variable but that didn't make any sense. Can anyone explain or offer up a good workaround?

Does this post even make sense? Its late in my timezone.

Thanks in advance
Patrick

[gavski]

I'm not sure what blogger is but I had a similar problem transferring awkward characters from HTML to php.

The solution was to use ereg(),
this allows you to specifically remove character types from the string (the ones you don't want)and store it to a new variable that wont mess up php.