note 81858 added to function.echo

I used to use echo like this because I thought it neat and easier to read. <? echo "<TABLE>", "<TR>", "<TD>COLUMN A</TD>", "<TD>COLUMN BA</TD>", "<TD>COLUMN C</TD>", "<TD>COLUMN D</TD>", "<TD>COLUMN E</TD>", "</TR>", "</TABLE"; ?> Until, one day, I noticed that the HTML was injected with misterious 8 characters in the middle of the HTML stream. Using packet capture I discovered that the first 2 and last 2 bytes were always OD OA (cr & lf) and the middle 4 were something similar to '206e'. The very odd thing is that the first OD OA was always at the end of a network packet and the remaining 6 were at the beginning of the following network packet. It was happening approximately every 5 to 10 running of the scripts and was random. So, Instead, I tried using concatenation replacing large chunks where echo was... <? $echo="<TABLE>"; $echo.="<TR>"; $echo.="<TD>COLUMN A</TD>"; $echo.="<TD>COLUMN BA</TD>"; $echo.="<TD>COLUMN C</TD>"; $echo.="<TD>COLUMN D</TD>"; $echo.="<TD>COLUMN E</TD>"; $echo.="</TR>"; $echo.="</TABLE"; echo $echo; ?> The issue disappeared AND it works faster! :) I hope this helps someone with similar issues nando_f@nothingsimple.com ---- Server IP: 69.147.83.197 Probable Submitter: 207.164.141.163 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.echo.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/81858 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/81858/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/81858/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/81858/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/81858/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/81858/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/81858/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/81858 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/81858 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php