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POHow to decode (\u00D8 \u00A7 \u00D) in php
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copied!<blockquote> <p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br> <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2934563/how-to-decode-unicode-escape-sequences-like-u00ed-to-proper-utf-8-encoded-cha">How to decode Unicode escape sequences like “\u00ed” to proper UTF-8 encoded characters?</a> </p> </blockquote> <p>I have requested a <code>URL</code> using <code>REST</code> in <code>PHP</code> and I got this result </p> <pre><code>\u00D8 \u00A7 \u00D9 \ i \u00B3 \u016E\ \u00D8 \u00A7 \u00D9 ... \u00B9 i \u016E \ \u016E Z\u0679z \u0192 ... </code></pre> <p>but when I request the URL directly from the bowser I get the result as plain readable text </p> <p>what is this encoding, and how to decode it using <code>PHP</code> to readable text ? </p> <h2>REST client code</h2> <p>I have called this function</p> <pre><code>$result = RestClient::get($url); </code></pre> <p>.</p> <pre><code><? /** * Class RestClient * Wraps HTTP calls using cURL, aimed for accessing and testing RESTful webservice. * By Diogo Souza da Silva <manifesto@manifesto.blog.br> */ class RestClient { private $curl ; private $url ; private $response =""; private $headers = array(); private $method="GET"; private $params=null; private $contentType = null; private $file =null; /** * Private Constructor, sets default options */ private function __construct() { $this->curl = curl_init(); curl_setopt($this->curl,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,true); curl_setopt($this->curl,CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER,true); // This make sure will follow redirects curl_setopt($this->curl,CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION,false); // This too curl_setopt($this->curl,CURLOPT_HEADER,true); // THis verbose option for extracting the headers } /** * Execute the call to the webservice * @return RestClient */ public function execute() { if($this->method === "POST") { curl_setopt($this->curl,CURLOPT_POST,true); curl_setopt($this->curl,CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,$this->params); } else if($this->method == "GET"){ curl_setopt($this->curl,CURLOPT_HTTPGET,true); $this->treatURL(); } else if($this->method === "PUT") { curl_setopt($this->curl,CURLOPT_PUT,true); $this->treatURL(); $this->file = tmpFile(); fwrite($this->file,$this->params); fseek($this->file,0); curl_setopt($this->curl,CURLOPT_INFILE,$this->file); curl_setopt($this->curl,CURLOPT_INFILESIZE,strlen($this->params)); } else { curl_setopt($this->curl,CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST,$this->method); } if($this->contentType != null) { curl_setopt($this->curl,CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER,array("Content-Type: ".$this->contentType)); } curl_setopt($this->curl,CURLOPT_URL,$this->url); $r = curl_exec($this->curl); $this->treatResponse($r); // Extract the headers and response return $this ; } /** * Treats URL */ private function treatURL(){ if(is_array($this->params) && count($this->params) >= 1) { // Transform parameters in key/value pars in URL if(!strpos($this->url,'?')) $this->url .= '?' ; foreach($this->params as $k=>$v) { $this->url .= "&".urlencode($k)."=".urlencode($v); } } return $this->url; } /* * Treats the Response for extracting the Headers and Response */ private function treatResponse($r) { if($r == null or strlen($r) < 1) { return; } $parts = explode("\n\r",$r); // HTTP packets define that Headers end in a blank line (\n\r) where starts the body while(preg_match('@HTTP/1.[0-1] 100 Continue@',$parts[0]) or preg_match("@Moved@",$parts[0])) { // Continue header must be bypass for($i=1;$i<count($parts);$i++) { $parts[$i - 1] = trim($parts[$i]); } unset($parts[count($parts) - 1]); } preg_match("@Content-Type: ([a-zA-Z0-9-]+/?[a-zA-Z0-9-]*)@",$parts[0],$reg);// This extract the content type $this->headers['content-type'] = $reg[1]; preg_match("@HTTP/1.[0-1] ([0-9]{3}) ([a-zA-Z ]+)@",$parts[0],$reg); // This extracts the response header Code and Message $this->headers['code'] = $reg[1]; $this->headers['message'] = $reg[2]; $this->response = ""; for($i=1;$i<count($parts);$i++) {//This make sure that exploded response get back togheter if($i > 1) { $this->response .= "\n\r"; } $this->response .= $parts[$i]; } } /* * @return array */ public function getHeaders() { return $this->headers; } /* * @return string */ public function getResponse() { return $this->response ; } /* * HTTP response code (404,401,200,etc) * @return int */ public function getResponseCode() { return (int) $this->headers['code']; } /* * HTTP response message (Not Found, Continue, etc ) * @return string */ public function getResponseMessage() { return $this->headers['message']; } /* * Content-Type (text/plain, application/xml, etc) * @return string */ public function getResponseContentType() { return $this->headers['content-type']; } /** * This sets that will not follow redirects * @return RestClient */ public function setNoFollow() { curl_setopt($this->curl,CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER,false); curl_setopt($this->curl,CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION,false); return $this; } /** * This closes the connection and release resources * @return RestClient */ public function close() { curl_close($this->curl); $this->curl = null ; if($this->file !=null) { fclose($this->file); } return $this ; } /** * Sets the URL to be Called * @return RestClient */ public function setUrl($url) { $this->url = $url; return $this; } /** * Set the Content-Type of the request to be send * Format like "application/xml" or "text/plain" or other * @param string $contentType * @return RestClient */ public function setContentType($contentType) { $this->contentType = $contentType; return $this; } /** * Set the Credentials for BASIC Authentication * @param string $user * @param string $pass * @return RestClient */ public function setCredentials($user,$pass) { if($user != null) { curl_setopt($this->curl,CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH,CURLAUTH_BASIC); curl_setopt($this->curl,CURLOPT_USERPWD,"{$user}:{$pass}"); } return $this; } /** * Set the Request HTTP Method * For now, only accepts GET and POST * @param string $method * @return RestClient */ public function setMethod($method) { $this->method=$method; return $this; } /** * Set Parameters to be send on the request * It can be both a key/value par array (as in array("key"=>"value")) * or a string containing the body of the request, like a XML, JSON or other * Proper content-type should be set for the body if not a array * @param mixed $params * @return RestClient */ public function setParameters($params) { $this->params=$params; return $this; } /** * Creates the RESTClient * @param string $url=null [optional] * @return RestClient */ public static function createClient($url=null) { $client = new RestClient ; if($url != null) { $client->setUrl($url); } return $client; } /** * Convenience method wrapping a commom POST call * @param string $url * @param mixed params * @param string $user=null [optional] * @param string $password=null [optional] * @param string $contentType="multpary/form-data" [optional] commom post (multipart/form-data) as default * @return RestClient */ public static function post($url,$params=null,$user=null,$pwd=null,$contentType="multipart/form-data") { return self::call("POST",$url,$params,$user,$pwd,$contentType); } /** * Convenience method wrapping a commom PUT call * @param string $url * @param string $body * @param string $user=null [optional] * @param string $password=null [optional] * @param string $contentType=null [optional] * @return RestClient */ public static function put($url,$body,$user=null,$pwd=null,$contentType=null) { return self::call("PUT",$url,$body,$user,$pwd,$contentType); } /** * Convenience method wrapping a commom GET call * @param string $url * @param array params * @param string $user=null [optional] * @param string $password=null [optional] * @return RestClient */ public static function get($url,array $params=null,$user=null,$pwd=null) { return self::call("GET",$url,$params,$user,$pwd); } /** * Convenience method wrapping a commom delete call * @param string $url * @param array params * @param string $user=null [optional] * @param string $password=null [optional] * @return RestClient */ public static function delete($url,array $params=null,$user=null,$pwd=null) { return self::call("DELETE",$url,$params,$user,$pwd); } /** * Convenience method wrapping a commom custom call * @param string $method * @param string $url * @param string $body * @param string $user=null [optional] * @param string $password=null [optional] * @param string $contentType=null [optional] * @return RestClient */ public static function call($method,$url,$body,$user=null,$pwd=null,$contentType=null) { return self::createClient($url) ->setParameters($body) ->setMethod($method) ->setCredentials($user,$pwd) ->setContentType($contentType) ->execute() ->close(); } } ?> </code></pre>

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