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myro
myro

Reputation: 1206

strange characters appear in html file when inlcuding a php file

vars.php

<?php 
   $sometext="text";
?>

index.php

     <?php 
include ('file1.php');
include ('variables.php');
 function genStr() {
    $len = 5;
    $base='ABCDEFGHKLMNOPQRSTWXYZ123456789';
    $max=strlen($base)-1;
    $str='';
    mt_srand((double)microtime()*1000000);
    while (strlen($str)<$len+1) {
     $str.=$base{mt_rand(0,$max)};
    }   
    return $str;
 }


if(isset($_POST['submit'])){
//processing
}?>
        <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
           "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
        <html>
        <head>
        <title>title</title> 
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> 
    <meta name="title" content="title" /> 
        </head>
        <body>
        </body>
        </html>

Now when I check the index.php page with firebug everything from within tags is moved into and there are some white characters added, so there is a rectangle on the top of the page in the browser. When I delete these few invisible characters in firebug, the rectangle dissappears

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
   "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> 
<html>
  <head></head> 
 <body>
   "  " <!-- white spaces here -->
<title>title</title> 
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> 
<meta name="title" content=title" /> 
<body>

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1815

Answers (3)

myro
myro

Reputation: 1206

The problem was in the text editor I used (notepad++). When I opened and saved the file in PsPad those characters dissappeared..

Upvotes: 0

jeroen
jeroen

Reputation: 91792

You are missing a " here:

<meta name="title" content=title" />

should be:

<meta name="title" content="title" />

Edit: the only way I can reproduce that, is by outputting anything other than spaces and new-lines before the doctype. Is php working when you echo for example something in de body of the page?

Upvotes: 3

Naftali
Naftali

Reputation: 146360

try changing your index.php to:

<?php include ('vars.php');?><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
       "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
    <html>
    <head>...

It should remove that extra line on top

Upvotes: 1

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