phpencodingcharacter-encodingspecial-charactersposterous

Posterous API, new post with special characters in title

I'm writing a script to drag all of my images from TwitPic to Posterous but I'm having problems with the some of the characters in the title, here's an example:

"My awesome title --> some more text"

So when I run the title through urlencode() it appears on the Posterous site as My awesome title --> some more text, if I don't run it through the urlencode() anything after the > is stripped, as you'd expect.

I've also tried to use htmlspecialchars() and similar with little success, if I email or use the web interface to enter a post any special characters are displayed properly.

I just want my title to match that of the TwitPic image title... but I cannot seem to get it to work.

Cheers, Ben

Solution

  • Oh my god... hangs head in shame...

    The content returned from the TwitPic API already hasd the HTML chars as > etc... ran the title through html_entitiy_decode() and it worked perfectly.

    Oh well, nobody died I guess.