include generates unexpected control character

include generates unexpected control character

am 06.12.2007 07:35:01 von r_ahimsa_m

Hello,
I have little experience in PHP so I would like to ask a question. I use
PHP5 in Windows XP Professional, Apache 2.0.59.
I have created a website with index.php file. This file contains:


The file Menu/Association.inc starts with:

  • (I mean before
  • there are no characters, "<" is first byte of the file).
    Unexpectedly in a browser I noticed additional space. When I view source I
    see in Notepad strange character between
      and
    • - Notepad shows it as
      square box so I guess that it is a control character, ASCII < "!".
      I tried to use readfile() instead of include() but with the same result.
      Both files, index.php and Menu/Association.inc, are encoded using UTF-8 (I
      have veryfied).
      Could you help me please?
      ***Thanks***
      /RAM/

    • Re: include generates unexpected control character

    am 06.12.2007 07:50:29 von luiheidsgoeroe

    On Thu, 06 Dec 2007 07:35:01 +0100, R.A.M. =

    wrote:

    > Hello,
    > I have little experience in PHP so I would like to ask a question. I u=
    se
    > PHP5 in Windows XP Professional, Apache 2.0.59.
    > I have created a website with index.php file. This file contains:
    >


    > The file Menu/Association.inc starts with:
    >

  • > (I mean before
  • there are no characters, "<" is first byte of the =
    =

    > file).
    > Unexpectedly in a browser I noticed additional space. When I view sour=
    ce =

    > I
    > see in Notepad strange character between
      and
    • - Notepad shows=
      =

      > it as
      > square box so I guess that it is a control character, ASCII < "!".
      > I tried to use readfile() instead of include() but with the same resul=
      t.
      > Both files, index.php and Menu/Association.inc, are encoded using UTF-=
      8 =

      > (I
      > have veryfied).
      > Could you help me please?

      UTF-8 BOM that shouldn't be there? (EF BB BF)
      -- =

      Rik Wasmus

    • Re: include generates unexpected control character

    am 06.12.2007 12:21:24 von Csaba2000

    R.A.M. wrote:
    > Hello,
    > I have little experience in PHP so I would like to ask a question. I use
    > PHP5 in Windows XP Professional, Apache 2.0.59.
    > I have created a website with index.php file. This file contains:
    >


    > The file Menu/Association.inc starts with:
    >

  • > (I mean before
  • there are no characters, "<" is first byte of the file).
    > Unexpectedly in a browser I noticed additional space. When I view source I
    > see in Notepad strange character between
      and
    • - Notepad shows it as
      > square box so I guess that it is a control character, ASCII < "!".
      > I tried to use readfile() instead of include() but with the same result.
      > Both files, index.php and Menu/Association.inc, are encoded using UTF-8 (I
      > have veryfied).

      Are you talking, perhaps, about the newline followed by
      3 spaces that you yourself have inserted by separating the

        from the
        Double check by looking at the hex values (with php, of course!)
        $text = file_get_contents("pathToFileGoesHere");
        $max = strlen($text); // or put in your own maximum
        for ($i=0;$i<$max;++$i) {
        // Now show the bytes or their ascii codes
        $ord = ord($chr=$text[$i]);
        if ($chr>="A" && $chr<="Z") $ord = $chr;
        else if ($chr>="a" && $chr<="z") $ord = $chr;
        else if ($ord==32) $ord = "space";
        print "$ord "; }


        Csaba Gabor from Vienna

    • Re: include generates unexpected control character

    am 06.12.2007 20:19:01 von r_ahimsa_m

    Thanks.
    I have checked the output using your program. It contains three additional
    (not occuring in .php nor .inc) bytes (just before "

  • ") with decimal
    values: 239 187 191 (printable, non-English letters). Where are they from in
    output? How to get rid of them?
    /RAM/

    • Re: include generates unexpected control character

    am 06.12.2007 20:23:32 von r_ahimsa_m

    U¿ytkownik "R.A.M." napisa³ w wiadomo¶ci
    news:fj9hv9$n9q$1@news2.task.gda.pl...
    > It contains three additional (not occuring in .php nor .inc) bytes (just
    > before "

  • ") with decimal values: 239 187 191 (printable, non-English
    > letters).

    The sequence starts a place of usage of every (a few
    times in my .php file), as well as before initial of output (three first bytes of output).
    /RAM/

    • Re: include generates unexpected control character

    am 06.12.2007 20:28:08 von luiheidsgoeroe

    On Thu, 06 Dec 2007 20:19:01 +0100, R.A.M. =

    wrote:

    > Thanks.
    > I have checked the output using your program. It contains three =

    > additional
    > (not occuring in .php nor .inc) bytes (just before "

  • ") with decima=
    l
    > values: 239 187 191 (printable, non-English letters). Where are they =

    > from in
    > output? How to get rid of them?

    As I allready stated in my previous post:

    239 187 191 =3D EF BB BF =3D UTF 8 BOM
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_Order_Mark

    Teach your favourite editor not to put BOM's in UTF-8 files, they are no=
    t =

    needed. And indeed, any descent editor will not show these bytes as =

    content of a file normally.
    -- =

    Rik Wasmus