WordPress PHP

[Medyman]

Hey guys...

I'm working on a blog farm of sorts and on the main page I have a section which shows the recent posts from one of eight blogs.

The posts are being updated correctly but it does away with line breaks and changes apostrophes to question marks.

Here is my recent.php file:

<?
    $blog_prefix = "redesign/blogs/WordPress";
    
    $conn[] = mysql_connect("localhost","user","pass");
    $conn[] = mysql_connect("localhost","user-1","pass");
    $conn[] = mysql_connect("localhost","user-2","pass");
    
    
    $where = " where post_status='publish' AND post_type='post' order by post_date DESC LIMIT 0,10";
    $result[] = mysql_query("select * from substance.wp1_posts".$where,$conn[0]);
    $result[] = mysql_query("select * from substance.wp2_posts".$where,$conn[0]);
    $result[] = mysql_query("select * from substance.wp3_posts".$where,$conn[0]);
    mysql_select_db("substance-1",$conn[1]);
    $result[] = mysql_query("select * from wp4_posts".$where,$conn[1]);
    $result[] = mysql_query("select * from wp5_posts".$where,$conn[1]);
    $result[] = mysql_query("select * from wp6_posts".$where,$conn[1]);
    mysql_select_db("substance-2",$conn[2]);
    $result[] = mysql_query("select * from wp8_posts".$where,$conn[2]);
    $result[] = mysql_query("select * from wp9_posts".$where,$conn[2]);
    
    mysql_close($conn[0]);
    mysql_close($conn[1]);
    mysql_close($conn[2]);

    $j=0;
    for($i=0;$i<8;$i++){
        while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result[$i])){
            $res[$j][pid]=$row[ID];
            $res[$j][blogid]=$blog_prefix.($i+1);
            $res[$j]['post_date']=$row[post_date];
            $res[$j][post_title]=$row[post_title];
            $res[$j][post_content]=utf8_decode($row[post_content]);
            $j++;
        }
    }

$res  = msort($res,'post_date');
$res  = array_slice($res,0,10);
/*for($i=0;$i<sizeof($rows);$i++){
print_r($rows[$i]);
}*/


/*
for($i=0;$i<6;$i++){
    while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result[$i])){
        $sql = "insert into temp_posts(pid,blogid,post_date,post_title,post_content) values(".$row[ID].",".($i+1).",'".$row[post_date]."','".$row[post_title]."','".$row[post_content]."')";
        //echo $sql.";<br>";
        mysql_query($sql);
    }
}


//$res = search($search,$limit,$page)
$sql = "select * from temp_posts order by post_date DESC LIMIT 0,10";
$res = mysql_query($sql);
*/
/*echo ("<h2>Recent Posts</h2>");

while($row = mysql_fetch_array($res)){
    // use if $row[guid]
    echo "<a href=$blogurl/".$row[blogid]."/?p=".$row[pid].">".$row[post_title]."</a><br>";
    echo parsecontent($row[post_content])."<br><br>";
}*/


function parsecontent($text){
    $offset = 400;
    $ext = " ";
    $patterns = "/\<(.*?)\>/";
    $replacements = "";
    $newText = preg_replace($patterns,$replacements, $text);
    if(strlen($newText)<400){
        $offset = strlen($newText);
        $ext = "";
    }
    $pos = strpos($newText ," ", $offset);
    if(!$pos)
        $pos = 400;
    return substr($newText,0,$pos).$ext;
}


function msort($array, $id="id") {
        $temp_array = array();
        while(count($array)>0) {
            $lowest_id = 0;
            $index=0;
            foreach ($array as $item) {
                if (isset($item[$id]) && $array[$lowest_id][$id]) {
                    if ($item[$id]>$array[$lowest_id][$id]) {
                        $lowest_id = $index;
                    }
                }
                $index++;
            }
            $temp_array[] = $array[$lowest_id];
            $array = array_merge(array_slice($array, 0,$lowest_id), array_slice($array, $lowest_id+1));
        }
        return $temp_array;
    }
?>

Any idea what is causing this?
Here is the live demo