php code

PHP Code:

    $sortby = 'name';
    $set = 'y';
 $number = 0;

$fp = fopen('data.txt','r');
if (!$fp) {echo 'ERROR: Unable to open file.'; exit;}



while (!feof($fp)) {
    $line = fgets($fp,1024); //use 2048 if very long lines
    $row++;
 list ($url, $name, $type, $img) = split ('\|', $line);
    if ($sortby == 'name') $sortkey = strtolower($name);
    $col[$row] = array($sortkey, $name, $type, $url, $img);
}

fclose($fp);

sort($col);
reset ($col);

$arrays = count($col) - 1;

$loop = -1;
while ($loop < $arrays) {
    $loop++;


       if ($col[$loop][2] == "$group") {
              $number++;
      

echo '
<td class="td2" valign="top"><div align="center"><a href="http://apps.facebook.com/fluff/fluffbook.php?id='.$col[$loop][3].'">'.$col[$loop][1].'<br><img src="pets/'.$col[$loop][4].'.png" width="110" class="'.$number.'"></a></div></td>
';
   if(($number % 4)==0)
   {
    echo "</tr>";
    echo "<tr>";
   }
}} 


In some of the names in the data file they have special charactors like
♥
☆
蛙

but when my code reads in the database it shows them as
♥
☆
è›™

how can I fix this?

anyone?

Probably you should set the correct character set header while sending the page to a browser, and the charset should be equal to the one of those strange characters, most likely UTF-8.