So, I'm working on a system to get a meta tag from a web page to get information about embedding a video from a link (like facebook).
I also get a page title and description to fill in some fields. And here I have a problem, the description works fine, because it is a text field, so I can use it .html(), but the title is input, so I can either use .attr()or .val(), and the problem arises from special characters like (é à è ö ä ü) .
Here is my code that I use.
This is my jQuery script action:
<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8">
$(function(){
$("#url").bind("change", function(){
var url = $("#url").val();
$.getJSON("/ajax/embed_video.php", { url: url }, function(json) {
$(json.embed).appendTo("#feeds");
$("#title").attr("value", json.title);
$("#description").html(json.description);
});
});
});
</script>
This is my php file for exporting JSON data:
$url = $_GET['url'];
$result = getUrlData($url);
$description = $result['metaTags']['og:description']['value'];
$title = $result['metaTags']['og:title']['value'];
$img_name = basename($result['metaTags']['og:image']['value']);
copy(''.$result['metaTags']['og:image']['value'].'', "../".$path_video_temp.$img_name);
$embed = " ";
$data = array('title' => $title,'description' => $description, 'embed' => $embed, 'img' => '/'.$path_video_temp.$img_name);
header('Content-Type: application/json; Charset=UTF-8');
echo json_encode($data);
When I have a headline with any accent or any special character, it prints é, etc.
html_entity_decode htmlspecialchars_decode
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