[SOLVED] Something is causing a br!

[Sulman]

Hi,

 

I have a page that is reliant on many different pages and possibly hundreds of functions.

 

One page or function is outputting a br at the top of the page. But it could be coming from anywhere.

 

What's the best way to find out wich page or function is the naughty one?

 

Thanks

[paul2463]

nothing easy is going to find this out for you, you will have to, one at at a time, prevent each page in turn being loaded into your page, one of them will be causing the problem then you find out where on that page the problem is

[Sulman]

Thanks,

 

I was worried you were going to say that 

 

So there isn't anything that will be able to profile my page and tell me what functions are being called and what there output is etc?

 

Thanks

[uniflare]

get notepad ++, it has a search feature where you can search through multiple files.

 

ie search all files for

<br>

or

<br />

, or functions like nl2br() etc.

[Sulman]

I'm using Zend so I can search files and folders but there are hundreds of legitimate br's being echoed in many different files.

 

So I can't really go down that route.

 

Thanks.

[Sulman]

Found this:

 

debug_print_backtrace()

http://uk.php.net/manual/en/function.debug-print-backtrace.php

 

I think it may be what I am looking for.

[uniflare]

hmm not sure how .

 

I would use an exit(); call near the start of the script and see if it still shows a <br>.

 

if it did i would move the exit() call up the script, check again if it still output <br>

 

i would repeat until i could narrow down the culprit

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think would be quicker than following the code line by line, echo by echo

 

hope this helps,

[Sulman]

Found it!

 

debug_print_backtrace() didn't work so I took a few of your suggestions and removed line by line.

 

A bit of a pain though!

 

Thanks

for your replies.