Reading and encoding html

Question

I am trying to read and display the content of the title (contained in a h1 tag) from many HTML files. These files are all in the same folder.

This is what the html files look like :

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC '-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN'>
<html> 
<head>   
    <title>A title</title> 
    <style type='text/css'>
    ... Styles here ...
    </style>
</head>
<body>
  <h1>&Ecirc;tre aidant</h1>
  <p>En g&eacute;n&eacute;ral, les aidants doivent &eacute;quilibrer...</p>
  ... more tags ...
</body>

I have tried to display the content from the H1 tag with this PHP script :

<?php 
foreach (glob("test/*.html") as $file) {
    $file_handle = fopen($file, "r");

    $doc = new DOMDocument();
    $doc->loadHTMLfile($file);

    $title = $doc->getElementsByTagName('h1');
    if ( $title && 0<$title->length ) {
        $title = $title->item(0);
        $content = $doc->savehtml($title);
        echo $content;
    }
    fclose($file_handle);
}
?>

But the output contains wrong characters. For the example file, the output is :

ÃŠtre aidant

How can I achieve this output?

Être aidant

Are files saved as UTF8? Did you try to convert the string something like secure.php.net/manual/en/function.fopen.php#104325 — x29a
– x29a, Commented Jun 30, 2015 at 17:04

Dave Chen · Accepted Answer · 2015-06-30 17:14:54Z

1

You should state a charset in the <head> of your HTML document.

<meta charset="utf-8">

answered Jun 30, 2015 at 17:14

Dave Chen

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user3218711 Over a year ago

Do you mean in the output document?

Dave Chen Over a year ago

Yep, for all your .html files, you should have this declaration. Try it for one file and see if it works or not.

user3218711 Over a year ago

ok, I added <head><meta charset="utf-8"></head> before the output and the output is as I need, thx for the help!

rocky · Accepted Answer · 2015-06-30 17:10:52Z

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you need to use utf-8 encoding change echo $content to echo utf8_encode($content);

answered Jun 30, 2015 at 17:10

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user3218711 Over a year ago

thanks for the answer but the output becomes ÃƒÂŠtre aidant

rocky Over a year ago

if you remove utf8_encode than output will be Être aidant. what is your expected output.

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