Re: php tutorial scripts, feedback

AFAIK those are real spaces in the source? Can you reproduce the same problem with other examples from that page, or from anywhere else from the manual? Goba [one webmaster@php.net] ----- Original Message ----- From: <lconnolly@myrealbox.com> To: <webmaster@php.net> Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 5:11 PM Subject: php tutorial scripts, feedback > Please update your tutorial to notify users that copy-paste of sample scripts will produce an error according to this newsgroup article, which helped me discover the problem after hours of other troubleshooting: > > It is an extremely baffling problem, not least because this code is on > the basic PHP tutorial at www.php.net/tut.php. The exact copied code is this: <html><head><title>PHP Test</title></head> > <body> > <?php echo "Hello World<p>"; ?> > </body></html> Looks fine eh? Well, no, it isn't. Copy the code (from the webpage, > not here) and examine the hex. For the problem part (' echo '), the > hex is: A0 65 63 68 6F A0 Which causes a problem, since the A0's are _not_ spaces, but some > other ASCII character (shown in most typesets as ' ' or 'á'). So what > PHP is actually parsing is this: <html><head><title>PHP Test</title></head> > <body> > <?phpáechoá"Hello World<p>";á?> > </body></html> Which is obviously horribly broken. Re-type the spaces and all should > be well. >