THANKS TRIPY

you sent me in the right direction,it was as you suggested saved in the wrong format

THANKS


Hi all
Im playing around in the php source of a phpnuke block and all was fine untill these things arrived:



Ive tryed back tracking but to no avail so just wondered if anyone knows
a/ what they mean
b/ how the hell they got there

Site url is www.cobragaming.biz and the symbals are in between blocks on right hand side, the block im playing with is the picture scroller

FULL BLOCK CODE :

PHP Code:

<?php
 
 
if ( !defined('BLOCK_FILE') ) {
    Header("Location: ../index.php");
    die();
}
 
 
$theme = get_theme();
$post_image = "themes/$theme/forums/images/icon_latest_reply.gif";
global $prefix, $user_prefix, $db, $user, $cookie, $group_id;
$content .= '
<script type="text/javascript">
/***********************************************
* Cross browser Marquee II- © Dynamic Drive (www.dynamicdrive.com)
* This notice MUST stay intact for legal use
* Visit http://www.dynamicdrive.com/ for this script and 100s more.
***********************************************/
var delayb4scroll=2000 //Specify initial delay before marquee starts to scroll on page (2000=2 seconds)
var marqueespeed=1 //Specify marquee scroll speed (larger is faster 1-10)
var pauseit=1 //Pause marquee onMousever (0=no. 1=yes)?
////NO NEED TO EDIT BELOW THIS LINE////////////
var copyspeed=marqueespeed
var pausespeed=(pauseit==0)? copyspeed: 0
var actualheight=\'\'
function scrollmarquee(){
if (parseInt(cross_marquee.style.top)>(actualheight*(-1)+8))
cross_marquee.style.top=parseInt(cross_marquee.style.top)-copyspeed+"px"
else
cross_marquee.style.top=parseInt(marqueeheight)+8+"px"
}
function initializemarquee(){
cross_marquee=document.getElementById("vmarquee")
cross_marquee.style.top=0
marqueeheight=document.getElementById("marqueecontainer").offsetHeight
actualheight=cross_marquee.offsetHeight
if (navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Netscape/7")!=-1){ //if Netscape 7x, add scrollbars to scroll and exit
cross_marquee.style.height=marqueeheight+"px"
cross_marquee.style.overflow="scroll"
return
}
setTimeout(\'lefttime=setInterval("scrollmarquee()",30)\', delayb4scroll)
}
if (window.addEventListener)
window.addEventListener("load", initializemarquee, false)
else if (window.attachEvent)
window.attachEvent("onload", initializemarquee)
else if (document.getElementById)
window.onload=initializemarquee
 
</script>
';
$content .= '
<div id="marqueecontainer" style="position: relative; width: 135px; height: 200px; overflow: hidden; padding: 2px; padding-left: 4px;" onMouseover="copyspeed=pausespeed" onMouseout="copyspeed=marqueespeed">
<div id="vmarquee" style="position: absolute; width: 98%;">
';
 
 
$content .= '
<div style="text-align:center; padding-top: 8px;"><img src="images/tn_toro.gif"><br />BHD</a></div>
</div>
</div>
<div style="padding-top: 8px;">
 
 
</div>
';
?>

Thanks in advance to you all
Mark

You have got the page encoding mixed up...
Probably you are working in ISO-8859-1, and the page was saved in UTF-8.

They don't mean anything in particular, they are character badly interpreted between the 2 encoding.
They usually correspond to a pattern. Try to use a BOM aware editor (I use eclipse, from http://www.eclipse.org , but it may be a bit heavy just for that) or something that let you switch the document encoding.

Sorry, but I cannot tell you of any windows editor apart Eclipse that allow you to witch that setting.