[RESOLVED] changing a html file from *.html to *.php generates syntax error at line 0

[itaym02]

Greetings.

I have a pure html+js+css page I wish to add several php lines to it.
The obvious first step is to change the postfix from html to php, which I did and tried to surf to. I haven't added a single line in php to it, and yet, I get syntax error at line 0 which is: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>

I have uploaded a test page to googlepages at
http://blackrenz.googlepages.com/youreyse.html

Any help would be appreciated.

[dagon]

<? is a short tag for php so turn short tags off

[itaym02]

thanks,

But I am aware of that. My short tags are turned off.

Any other ideas?

[NogDog]

itaym02;10880608 wrote:

thanks,

But I am aware of that. My short tags are turned off.

Any other ideas?

Are you sure? After copying the HTML source to a local .php file and running it, I only get the error if I first turn on the short_open_tag setting. The work-around is to echo out the xml tag via PHP:

<?php echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>'; ?>

[bradgrafelman]

Do a phpinfo() and look at the value of short_open_tag - it's most likely "On".

[itaym02]

NogDog;10880612 wrote:

Are you sure? After copying the HTML source to a local .php file and running it, I only get the error if I first turn on the short_open_tag setting. The work-around is to echo out the xml tag via PHP:

<?php echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>'; ?>

It was a problem with BOM.

Thanks all

[bradgrafelman]

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