Included PHP widgets make extra space?

[Ivan Ivković]

When I put PHP code in my site, it doesn't make any extra space, when I include it as a file, it makes one new line. Why? There is no </br> tag anywhere.

 

<div id="left">
<?php include('includes/navigation.php'); ?>
</div>

 

This doesn't make any space.

 

<div id="left">
<ul>
	<li><a href="index.php?nav=list">List Work</a></li>
	<li><a href="index.php?nav=new">New Done Work</a></li>
	<li><a href="index.php?action=logout">Logout</a></li>
</ul>
</div>

 

This does.

 

Even when I make it like this, still does the same.

 

<div id="left"><?php include('includes/navigation.php'); ?></div>

 

Also, Chrome element inspector shows this:

 

<div id="left">
"" <- What's this? :S
<ul>
	<li><a href="index.php?nav=list">List Work</a></li>
	<li><a href="index.php?nav=new">New Done Work</a></li>
	<li><a href="index.php?action=logout">Logout</a></li>
</ul>
</div>

[PFMaBiSmAd]

When you do a 'view source' of the page using the php include, what do you see and where exactly is the extra space at?

 

I suspect your navigation.php file is saved with the BOM (Byte Order Mark) characters it is the BOM that is causing the extra space.

[Ivan Ivković]

TRUE! Working now, thank you. I've set it to UTF-8, now set to option UTF-8 WITHOUT BOM.