php - Facebook上的帖子，包含双引号的消息

Question

I am trying to post on Facebook wall, with following code. The message sometimes contains double quotes or other characters which is converted on wall, don't know how to get this resolved. Following is the code I am using

UPDATE

$title = get_the_title($post->ID); // using wordpress posts' title

//$title = "John's message has \"\" double quotes"; I thought it might be facebook doing something with the title. but by using raw according to Tim, it worked.

                    $attachment = array(
                        'access_token' => $smm_fb_access_token,
                        'message' => $title,
                        'name' => "Site.com",
                        'link' => $handler_url,
                    );

                    $facebook->api(sprintf('/%s/feed', $fb_id), 'POST', $attachment);

The post on Facebook becomes like that

John’s message has ““ double quotes.

Please guide what should I do to make it work?

Answer 1

Nothing in your code would HTML-escape your $title string, so it's getting escaped elsewhere.

The HTML encodings you've given are also 'fancy quotes' and not the ASCII characters in your example $title string. (i.e. “ not ") So if something else is escaping it, it's doing it quote deliberately. (like wordpress might cleverly do)

I suggest posting more of your code that shows what's happening to the data on its journey to the Facebook SDK

UPDATE

As this is wordpress the $title string must be retrieved without HTML escaping. Avoid get_the_title which is escaped, and instead get the raw post title with

$title = $post->post_title;
// rest of your code.

Note that Wordpress filters will NOT be applied to this string, which hopefully is what you want. If it is not what you want them you'll have to do as you were doing with get_the_title and then HTML decode the string. html_entity_decode won't help in your case because PHP can't decode the unicode entities. I strongly recommend the former approach regardless.