#35133 [Opn->Bgs]: Strange extra characters appears on page

ID: 35133 Updated by: derick@php.net Reported By: sverker at fridqvist dot se -Status: Open +Status: Bogus Bug Type: Unknown/Other Function Operating System: Linux lhotse 2.6.12-1-386 PHP Version: 5.0.5 New Comment: Sorry, but your problem does not imply a bug in PHP itself. For a list of more appropriate places to ask for help using PHP, please visit http://www.php.net/support.php as this bug system is not the appropriate forum for asking support questions. Due to the volume of reports we can not explain in detail here why your report is not a bug. The support channels will be able to provide an explanation for you. Thank you for your interest in PHP. This is a "BOM" - a few bytes that mark an file as UTF8. Fix your editors' configuration not to add the BOM. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2005-11-07 00:52:42] sverker at fridqvist dot se Description: ------------ Three extra characters () are inserted at the top of my page. If I start the main page with ob_end_clean() these characters do not appear. It seems to me that a bug causes PHP to generate and send the extra characters to Apache. The characters certainly have not been coded by me. I have not been able to generate the problem through other PHP code. The page is generated by PHP5 code distributed on > 10 classes in individual files that are required as needed through __autoload(). The HTML is generated using DOMImplementation, and output in one of the required files through this code: header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1'); echo $doc->saveXML(); This is the one single echo statement in the code. Reproduce code: --------------- I am reluctant to expose the complete code, since it would reveal connection info for my database that I prefer to keep for myself, and the code will not work without the DB anyway. If you are interested in following up this, I am willing to do some experiments to reproduce the error with other code. Expected result: ---------------- I expect the page to look this way: http://sverker.fridqvist.se/test/index.php5 Actual result: -------------- Without the ob_end_clean() at the top of the code the page will contain the extra characters: http://sverker.fridqvist.se/test/indexError.php5 The extra characters are visible with Mac OS X browser Camino 0.9a1, but not with Safari and Opera. The W3C validator reports the characters as an error. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=35133&edit=1