[SOLVED] what the heck is this ----> 

[chronister]

Could someone please tell me what that is and why it is showing up in my page?

 

the page it is showing up on lives in

 

/dir/page_with_error.php

 

I am including a file that lives in

 

/includefile.php

 

with this code..

 

<?php
$array = explode('/', $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']);
for($x=1; $x < (count($array) - 1 ) ; $x++){$serverRoot.= '/'.$array[$x];}
include($serverRoot.'/connect.php');  
?>

 

Anyone got an idea??

 

Thanks,

 

Nate

[revraz]

Because your editor put it there.

[kts]

This may happen if you copy and paste text from certain programs/sites. The characters look invisible to you, but they end up showing on page.

[chronister]

I use dreamweaver in code view, and I did copy and paste, but I looked and there is no extra code or even white space.

 

I copied and pasted from another php file. So I am baffled.

 

 

Nate

[adam291086]

when you switch deisgn mode in dreamweaver does it display.

[revraz]

Dreamweaver is known for this.  May have to search on why and how to stop it or just use notepad to remove it.

[trq]

What exactly is the point of the code posted anyway?

[chronister]

What exactly is the point of the code posted anyway?

 

I have a db class that handles all db communications. I want to use this with all the sites that reside on the server . I placed the file on the root of my webserver, each site lives in a dir named as the site.

 

I use the code I posted to include this file. Since it lives in a directory above the site, I did not want to hard code the path, so I use the explode to create an array with all the pieces of the path.. e.g.

 

the path come out something like /kunden/pages/32432432432432/htdocs/mysite.com

 

then I basically replace the last /XXXX.XXX with /connect.php and my connection class is included from outside the site root.

 

 

or just use notepad to remove it.

 

It does not show in the code at all. Not with notepad or anything.

[PFMaBiSmAd]

The characters are the BOM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_Order_Mark when a file gets saved in UTF-8 formatting. Save your file as an ANSI/ASCII file.

[chronister]

I hate to sound stupid here, but how do I save in a specific encoding?

[chronister]

nevermind... opened in notepad, and lo and behold an encoding option... hehehee

 

 

thanks PFMaBiSmAd ... that solved it

 

 

Thanks everyone for the help here.

 

Nate

[revraz]

Would think there would be a option in your editor too.

[trq]

You could simply use....

 

<?php

$serverRoot = dirname($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']) . '../';
include($serverRoot . '/connect.php');
  
?>

[chronister]

You could simply use....

 

<?php

$serverRoot = dirname($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']) . '../';
include($serverRoot . '/connect.php');
  
?>

 

Gives me the following error

 

Warning:include(/11/d207413455/htdocs..//connect.php) failed to open stream: No such file or directory in