[SOLVED] PHP Include inserts unknown charachters

[nullpointer]

I have index file (index.php) and another file brands.php

 

The content of brands.php is just three lines below

 

<?php
require_once 'index.php' ;
?>

 

My expectation is brands.php should be exactly like index.php. But php include is inserting extra characters on the top

 

This is the character i got from firefox : 

IE does not show any thing.

 

my .htaccess file is

RewriteEngine on

RewriteRule ^(.*)\.html$ $1.php [L]

 

 

php version is

PHP 5.2.6 (cli) (built: May  2 2008 18:02:07)

Copyright © 1997-2008 The PHP Group

Zend Engine v2.2.0, Copyright © 1998-2008 Zend Technologies

 

I tested over godaddy as well.

 

Those files are live in jdmhub.com and jdmhub.com/brands.html

 

I edited these files with Front Page .. did it mess up the file encoding ? please help.

 

Thanks

 

----------------------------------- SOLVED -----------------------------------

I solved it. It was Front Page messing up the encoding. I copied the text and pasted it in textpad and saved with same name. It solved the problem.

 

 

[wildteen88]

The characters  usually means PHP is outputting the BOM, this only happens when files are saved as UTF-8

 

To fix this you should save you files as "UTF8 without BOM" (this should be a setting in your text editor/save dialog). Or save the file as ASCII instead.