Dan O'Brien's Tutorial Amazon Web Services: A Brief Introduction Using PHP

[PhilMarkey]

I've been playing with Dan O'Brien's Tutorial about AWS, and I've not changed anything and it works exactly like it should!

However, when I convert it to work with Amazon UK - I've changed: http://xml-eu.amazon.com/
books-uk
local=uk
and changed the BrowseNode values
It all works fine! Except that the prices display with an (Â) before the pound sign.

Example: List Price: £8.95 Our Price: £8.95

Dose anyone know where the (Â) is comming from?

[Blue Cat Buxton]

Use $price=trim($price,"Â"); to clean up the price value $price may be OurPrice or ListPrice in Dans script, I cant remember off hand, but the trim function should sort you out

[r2d2]

Ive had to do that as well using AWS4.

[PhilMarkey]

Thanks Guys,
I do have the trim function, but I was wondering if you know what it is that is causing it to happen?

[MarkB]

It's just the encoding of the text when it's parsed through the XML, I believe...

[PhilMarkey]

Thanks Mark (web monkey),
But why would it do that? And why not with the $ sign?

[Blue Cat Buxton]

One of lifes great mysteries, I suppose?

It is odd though that it shows correctly in the XML page