splitting string by €-symbol with PHP won't work!?

Question

hi there!

i got this crappy website i need to parse and the html-element i need to get the contents of contains "€" symbols. the actual html of this page looks like this:

<td>Mais-Lauch-R&ouml;sti <font color=#000000 size=1>(1,2,9,11)</font> mit Paprikasauce <font color=#000000 size=1>(3,9)</font><nobr><b> 2,10 &euro;</b></nobr><br/>........

so i use DOM to get the contents of the element. unfortunately, this ends up like the following code (via var_dump()):

string(270) "Mais-Lauch-Rösti (1,2,9,11) mit Paprikasauce (3,9) 2,10 €.........

(dom seems to strip all containing tags when using sth like $td->item(0)->nodeValue;)

so the € was parsed to € - fine. but when i try to split the string (that is actually a little longer than the posted excerpt) by the €-symbol by using

$data = explode("€", $data);

it won't work. explode() just won't detect the € symbol. i tried splitting by "€", but this won't work either. i also tried using str_replace() and preg_replace() - but none of them would recognize the symbol :(

am i missing something? what am i doing wrong?

Answer 1

It's still € in the string - it just displays in the browser as €. You'll need to split on € instead.

Answer 2

$data = explode("€", $data);

Answer 3

tried it with simple php dom parser... it works :)