Everything omitted before Apostrophe. Please help!!

[jonny_5ive]

I'm parsing a XML feed using PHP, but when the HTML is outputed. Title data and Description data will omit information before the apostrophe symbol (') . For example if one of the titles of the RSS feed is "Gas prices shouldn't go up" It'll output as "t go up" leaving out Gas prices shouldn, you can see more @ www.gimme5ive.com/ent/index.php . Here is my PHP code:

<?php

class xItem {
  var $xTitle;
  var $xLink;
  var $xDescription;
}

// general vars
$sPubDate = "";
$sUrl = "";
$sTitle = "";
$sLink = "";
$sDescription = "";
$arItems = array();
$itemCount = 0;

// ********* Start User-Defined Vars ************
// rss url goes here
$uFile = "http://www.sohh.com/syndication/rss/daily_hip_hop_news_2_0.rss";
// descriptions (true or false) goes here
$bDesc = true;
// font goes here
$uFont = "Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif";
$uFontSize = "1";
// ********* End User-Defined Vars **************

function startElement($parser, $name, $attrs) {
  global $curTag;

  $curTag .= "^$name";

}

function endElement($parser, $name) {
  global $curTag;

  $caret_pos = strrpos($curTag,'^');

  $curTag = substr($curTag,0,$caret_pos);

}

function characterData($parser, $data) { global $curTag; // get the Channel information first
  global $sPubDate, $sUrl, $sTitle, $sLink, $sDescription;  

  $pubDateKey = "^RSS^CHANNEL^PUBDATE";  

  $urlKey = "^RSS^CHANNEL^IMAGE^URL";
  $titleKey = "^RSS^CHANNEL^TITLE";
  $linkKey = "^RSS^CHANNEL^LINK";
  $descKey = "^RSS^CHANNEL^DESCRIPTION";
  if ($curTag == $pubDateKey) {
    $sPubDate .= $data;
  }
  elseif ($curTag == $urlKey) {
    $sUrl .= $data;
  }
  elseif ($curTag == $titleKey) {
    $sTitle .= $data;
  }
  elseif ($curTag == $linkKey) {
    $sLink .= $data;
  }
  elseif ($curTag == $descKey) {
    $sDescription .= $data;
  }

  // now get the items 
  global $arItems, $itemCount;
  $itemTitleKey = "^RSS^CHANNEL^ITEM^TITLE";
  $itemLinkKey = "^RSS^CHANNEL^ITEM^LINK";
  $itemDescKey = "^RSS^CHANNEL^ITEM^DESCRIPTION";

 if ($curTag == $itemTitleKey) {
    // make new xItem    

    $arItems[$itemCount] = new xItem();     

// set new item object's properties    
$arItems[$itemCount]->xTitle .= $data;
  }
  elseif ($curTag == $itemLinkKey) {
    $arItems[$itemCount]->xLink .= $data;
  }
  elseif ($curTag == $itemDescKey) {
    $arItems[$itemCount]->xDescription .= $data;
    // increment item counter
    $itemCount++;
  }
}

// main loop
$xml_parser = xml_parser_create();
xml_set_element_handler($xml_parser, "startElement", "endElement");
xml_set_character_data_handler($xml_parser, "characterData");
if (!($fp = fopen($uFile,"r"))) {
  die ("could not open RSS for input");
}
while ($data = fread($fp, 4096)) {
  if (!xml_parse($xml_parser, $data, feof($fp))) {
    die(sprintf("XML error: %s at line %d", xml_error_string(xml_get_error_code($xml_parser)), xml_get_current_line_number($xml_parser)));
  }
}
xml_parser_free($xml_parser);


// write out the items
?>

<a href = "<?php echo($sLink); ?>"><img border= "0" src = "<?php echo($sUrl); ?>"></a>
<br>
<b>Updated: <?php echo($sPubDate); ?></b>

<br>
<?php
for ($i=0;$i<count($arItems);$i++) {
  $txItem = $arItems[$i];
?>
<table width="85%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr><a target="_blank" href = "<?php echo ($txItem->xLink); ?>"><?php echo trim($txItem->xTitle); ?></a></tr>
<?php 
if ($bDesc) {
?>
<tr><?php echo trim($txItem->xDescription); ?></tr></table>

<?php
}

}
?>

[bivaughn]

Look into using addslashes on the XML you receive in your while() loop:

addslahses()

or

function clean_input ($dirty_data) {

$return = addslashes(trim(strip_tags($dirty_data)));

return $return;

}

[jonny_5ive]

Don't know if I did it right, but I still had problems with it afterwards. I should mention i'm really new to PHP so it could've been I was putting it in the wrong place. Could someone possible give me a more elaborate example?

Thanks