i am calling one function like this

——————code in controller———————-
$this->load->library(‘simplepie’);
$arr_data[‘feed’] = new SimplePie();
$arr_data[‘feed’]->set_feed_url(‘http://images.apple.com/main/rss/hotnews/hotnews.rss’);
$arr_data[‘feed’]->set_cache_location(‘cache’);
$arr_data[‘feed’]->init();     
$arr_data[‘feed’]->handle_content_type();
——————-end of code in controller———————-

in view page i am calling like this
—————————

<?php
  if ($feed->data)
      {
      $max = $feed->get_item_quantity(20);
      for ($x = 0; $x < $max; $x++)
      {
        $item = $feed->get_item($x);
              echo $item->get_title();
              echo htmlentities($item->get_description());

          }
      }
     

?>
problem is .............i am getting results with unknown characters…...in description content as shown below…......

iTunes customers in the UK can now purchase and download hit television programming from ABC Studios, the Disney Channel, MTV, Nickelodeon, and Paramount Comedy for £1.89 an episode. The programming includes such shows as the Emmy Award-winning series “Lost,” “Desperate Housewives,” “Grey’s Anatomy,” and “Ugly Betty,” as well as locally-produced UK series, including MTV’s “Barrio 19,” Nickelodeon’s “Genie in the House,” and Paramount Comedy’s “Comedy Blue.”
     

please help me
thx

try setting a meta tag in your view to indicate the browser it should render in UTF-8 charset, like so:

this usually salves the strange characters problem

In header i changed from

<meta http-equiv=“Content-Type” content=“text/html; charset=iso-8859-1”>

to

<meta http-equiv=“Content-Type” content=“text/html; charset=UTF-8”>

Its really great alpar…............Its working fine

Thanks a lot…...........

Hello All,
I’m running into some issues using SimpleRSS. 

Here is the code that I’am using:

When I print $feed I see there is an error: [error] => A feed could not be found at http://feedproxy.google.com/blogspot/MKuf

Which is ridiculous because its the official google blog RSS feed. 

If I change the method set_feed_url to force_feed(), the error doesn’t show up but when I try print_f $items it comes up as a blank array.

Am I missing something with this library?