Periods being left from code causing layout problems

[philspliff]

Hi

I'm sure this is not something new but I can't seem to find a solution.

 

When using include or echo they leave a full stop in the created document. These are causing a layout problem by moving <div's> out of place.

 

How is this stopped.

Sorry for the dumb question

 

[PFMaBiSmAd]

Php only outputs what your php code says to output or anything that is not inside of the <?php ?> tags gets automatically output.

 

If you are getting characters output that you don't want, you would need to find out where they are coming from in your source files and remove them.

[philspliff]

I have just noticed that it is not a full stop

Third line of code first character. It is half way up the height of the line.

 

Every time a piece of php output is inserted into the page including simple text/html files this character is added before the output.

 

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[kenrbnsn]

Please post the PHP code between

tags.

[philspliff]

Main page would have this in it

<div class="maincontainer">
<?php include "phpfiles/navheader.txt" ?>

navheader.txt is as follows:

<div class='header'>
<div class='photocrafted bgimg'>
	<a class='navlink' href='http://www.photocrafted.com/index.php'>
		<img src='http://www.photocrafted.com/buttons/photocraftedblackpink.gif' class='photocraftedimg' alt='photocrafted' />
	</a>
</div>
<div class='navholder'>
	<div class='navholderbg'>
		<img class='navholderbg' src='http://www.photocrafted.com/buttons/navbars.gif' alt='navbars' />
		<div class='navtopleft bgimg'>
			<a href='http://www.photocrafted.com/weddings.php'>
				<img class='navtopleft' src='http://www.photocrafted.com/buttons/weddings.gif' alt='weddings' />
			</a>
		</div>
		<div class='navtopright bgimg'>
			<a href='http://www.photocrafted.com/galleries.php'>
			  <img class='navtopright' src='http://www.photocrafted.com/buttons/gallery.gif' alt='galleries' />
			</a>
		</div>
		<div class='navbottomleft bgimg'>
			<a href='http://www.photocrafted.com/events.php'>
			  <img class='navbottomleft' src='http://www.photocrafted.com/buttons/events1.gif' alt='events' />
			</a>
		</div>
		<div class='navbottomright bgimg'>
			<a href='http://www.photocrafted.com/contact.php'>
			  <img class='navbottomright' src='http://www.photocrafted.com/buttons/contact1.gif' alt='contact' />
			</a>
		</div>
	</div>
</div>
</div>

The text file is saved as utf-8 using notepad++ as an editor

 

This results in the following output as shown in the attached file. I tried to paste it directly into here as it but the strange character does not show up!!

 

 

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[kenrbnsn]

If you're saving as UTF-8, make sure you save it without the BOM character. If you save it with the BOM, that puts the weird character in front of the opening "<?php".

 

Ken

[philspliff]

Thank you to kenrbnsn, this solved my problem and made the file noticeably smaller.

 

Encode as  "utf-8 without BOM"

 

Cheers