Why is  appearing in my HTML? [duplicate]
Solution 1:
The character in question  is the Unicode Character 'ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE' (U+FEFF). It may be that you copied it into your code via a copy/paste without realizing it. The fact that it's not visible makes it hard to tell if you're using an editor that displays actual unicode characters.
One option is to open the file in a very basic text editor that doesn't understand unicode, or one that understands it but has the ability to display any non-ascii characters using their actual codes.
Once you locate it, you can delete the small block of text around it and retype that text manually.
Solution 2:
Just use notepad ++ with encoding UTF-8 without BOM.
Solution 3:
yeah, its so simple to fix that, just open that file by notepad++ and step follow --> Encoding\ encoding UTF-8 without BOM. then save that. It work for me as well!
Solution 4:
Try:
<?php
// Tell me the root folder path.
// You can also try this one
// $HOME = $_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"];
// Or this
// dirname(__FILE__)
$HOME = dirname(__FILE__);
// Is this a Windows host ? If it is, change this line to $WIN = 1;
$WIN = 0;
// That's all I need
?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>UTF8 BOM FINDER and REMOVER</title>
<style>
body { font-size: 10px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background: #FFF; color: #000; }
.FOUND { color: #F30; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<?php
$BOMBED = array();
RecursiveFolder($HOME);
echo '<h2>These files had UTF8 BOM, but i cleaned them:</h2><p class="FOUND">';
foreach ($BOMBED as $utf) { echo $utf ."<br />\n"; }
echo '</p>';
// Recursive finder
function RecursiveFolder($sHOME) {
global $BOMBED, $WIN;
$win32 = ($WIN == 1) ? "\\" : "/";
$folder = dir($sHOME);
$foundfolders = array();
while ($file = $folder->read()) {
if($file != "." and $file != "..") {
if(filetype($sHOME . $win32 . $file) == "dir"){
$foundfolders[count($foundfolders)] = $sHOME . $win32 . $file;
} else {
$content = file_get_contents($sHOME . $win32 . $file);
$BOM = SearchBOM($content);
if ($BOM) {
$BOMBED[count($BOMBED)] = $sHOME . $win32 . $file;
// Remove first three chars from the file
$content = substr($content,3);
// Write to file
file_put_contents($sHOME . $win32 . $file, $content);
}
}
}
}
$folder->close();
if(count($foundfolders) > 0) {
foreach ($foundfolders as $folder) {
RecursiveFolder($folder, $win32);
}
}
}
// Searching for BOM in files
function SearchBOM($string) {
if(substr($string,0,3) == pack("CCC",0xef,0xbb,0xbf)) return true;
return false;
}
?>
</body>
</html>
copy this code to php file upload to root and run it.
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