Symbols such as: ♫
http://www.chatsmileysemoticons.com/music-symbol-twitter/
So that I can do something like:
$tweet = '♫'.$tweet.$play_song_url;
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They're Unicode characters. Just make sure your HTML is UTF-8 and you can then use entities like:
–
For example: –
cletus
2009-11-11 10:32:14
You can use a numeric character reference like this regardless of the page's charset. Using UTF-8 allows you to include `–` as a simple direct character instead of the escape.
bobince
2009-11-11 11:18:27
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If you are writting your PHP source code in UTF-8, you can directly use that "special" character :
header('Content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8');
$tweet = '♫' . ' Hello !';
echo $tweet;
Will get you the expected output -- I've just tried.
Note that your browser must, of course, display the page as UTF-8 -- this explain why I sent the correct header.
You can also use the HTML code of the character you want, and use html_entity_decode to convert them to a single character :
header('Content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8');
$tweet = html_entity_decode('♫', ENT_COMPAT, 'UTF-8') . ' Hello !';
echo $tweet;
The problem being finding the right HTML-entity code ^^
Pascal MARTIN
2009-11-11 10:32:33
What about URL encoding: `%E2%99%AB` I could not find a HTML entity for the note symbol and when I passed `♫ to twitter it did not decode it until after the posting of the tweet. However when I use the URL encoding it decodes it correctly... Although it show up as a box in the url...
ian
2009-11-11 11:17:48
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A:
You can do one of two things:
- Use HTML entities, these are the one you'll need:
♩ ♪ ♫ ♬ ♭ ♮ ♯ - Encode your page as UTF8 and insert the symbols directly. You can do with with a meta tag in the
<head>section of your HTML:<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
DisgruntledGoat
2009-11-11 10:32:55
A:
You can just echo out the html character entities, if supported. Something like
echo "You have my ♥ so I'll give you a ♦";
Jeremy Morgan
2009-11-11 10:33:34