Include oddity

[StuartM]

"testinc1.php"

<?php
echo ("Here-");
$var1="Why-";
$var2="does-";
$var3="it-";
$var4="do-";
$var5="this";
echo($var1.$var2.$var3.$var4.$var5);
echo ("-Here");
?>

returns

Here-Why-does-it-do-this-Here

but

"testinc.php"

<?php
$var1="Why-";
$var2="does-";
$var3="it-";
$var4="do-";
$var5="this";
?>

"testinc2.php"
<?php
echo ("Here-");
include("testinc.php");
echo($var1.$var2.$var3.$var4.$var5);
echo ("-Here");
?>

returns

Here-Why-does-it-do-this-Here

My expectation was that the output would be exactly the same.

So am I being daft?

or

my Firefox / php 5.3.6 / win 7 64bit incorrectly setup?

or

something else?

....tend to go for the first.....🙂

Stuart

[StuartM]

This now appears to be a local Firefox / php 5.3.6 / win 7 64bit problem as on the remote server it works as expected......

[NogDog]

Looks like you have a BOM (byte order mark) at the start of your include file. (Make sure that if saving as UTF-8 that your editor has an option to not include the BOM.)