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**meirarmon** · 07-08-2010, 08:39 PM

I purchased a template and I was beginning to write php code to make the admin. I am having a problem that the site is showing up in chrome and firefox properly, but in internet explorer, the whole code is messed up.

At the top of the page I have an include with php code, that if I take it out the site displays properly. Why should this include effect anything? the php does not give any html output...

in google chrome I viewed the source and i see a character like a dash before the html tag, though it is not a character that I can copy and paste.

Can someone help me please? This is urgent, I have a deadline for the project.

More Information: URL of the site is: http://skubu.com/sys/superadmin/login.php

the problem I am having is in internet explorer 8. If you make a comparison, the page shows fine in all browsers other than ie (tested in chrome and firefox).

The code for login.php is:

PHP Code:


			
<?php

include 'inc/settings.php';



if (isset($_SESSION["username"]))

    $username = $_SESSION["username"];

elseif (isset($_COOKIE["username"]))

    $username = $_COOKIE["username"];

    

if (isset($_SESSION["password"]))

    $password = $_SESSION["password"];

elseif (isset($_COOKIE["password"]))

    $password = $_COOKIE["password"];

    

if (isset($_COOKIE["remember"]))

    $remember = $_COOKIE["remember"];

?>

<!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><?php echo $login_title;?></title>

<link href="css/960.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all" />

<link href="css/reset.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all" />

<link href="css/text.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all" />

<link href="css/login<?php echo $dir;?>.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all" />

</head>



<body dir="<?php echo $dir;?>">

<div class="container_16">

  <div class="grid_6 prefix_5 suffix_5">

         <h1><?php echo $login_title;?></h1>

        <div id="login">

          <!--<p class="tip">You just need to hit the button and you're in!</p>-->

          <?php

            if (isset($_SESSION["errors"]))

                foreach ($_SESSION["errors"] as $err)

                    echo '<p class="error">'.$err.'!</p>';

          ?>

          <form id="form1" name="form1" method="post" action="doLogin.php">

            <p>

              <label><strong><?php echo $login_username;?></strong>

<input type="text" name="username" class="inputText" id="textfield" value="<?php if (isset($username)) echo $username;?>"/>

              </label>

            </p>

            <p>

              <label><strong><?php echo $login_password;?></strong>

  <input type="password" name="password" class="inputText" id="textfield2" value="<?php if (isset($password)) echo $password;?>"/>

              </label>

            </p>

            <a class="black_button" href="#" onClick="document.form1.submit();"><span><?php echo $login_login;?></span></a>

             <label>

             <input type="checkbox" name="remember" id="checkbox" <?php if (isset($remember)) echo $remember;?>/>

              <?php echo $login_remember;?></label>            

          </form>

          <br clear="all" />

          <a href="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];?>?lang=english"><img src = "images\flag_icons\png\us.png" style="height:15px;" alt="english" border="0"></a>

          <a href="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];?>?lang=hebrew"><img src = "images\flag_icons\png\il.png" style="height:15px;" alt="hebrew" border="0"></a>

        </div>

        <div id="forgot">

        <a href="#" class="forgotlink"><span><?php echo $login_forgot;?></span></a></div>

  </div>

</div>

<br clear="all" />

</body>

</html>

<?php

unset($_SESSION["errors"]);

unset($_SESSION["username"]);

unset($_SESSION["password"]);

?>

**mgraphic** · 07-08-2010, 08:50 PM

From the top closing php tag ?> and the open <!DOCTYPE...

You have multiple strange charactures in there that look like a space and newline to the eye, but it is throwing IE in quirks mode.

Replace anything in there with a simple newline and that should solve it (?)

**meirarmon** · 07-09-2010, 03:41 AM

Thank you for the reply.

What do you mean by a newline character? where should I put it?

**meirarmon** · 07-09-2010, 04:32 AM

Also, when I comment out the include at the top, it works fine.

**colbyt** · 07-09-2010, 06:10 AM

That would lead me to believe that it might be something in the settings.php file that is causing the problem. Can you post a copy of that file? Use **** stars to edit any confidential info in what your post.

**meirarmon** · 07-09-2010, 06:12 AM

PHP Code:


			
<?php

$conn_host = "*****";

$conn_username = "*****";

$conn_password = "*****";

$conn_database = "*****";



include 'inc/functions.php';

include 'lang/'.determineLanguageFile().'.php';



//classes

include '../lib/class_database.php';

include '../lib/class_user.php';



session_start();



auth(); //check if user is logged in

?>

**chrishirst** · 07-09-2010, 06:41 AM

there is a bunch of unicode characters "<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">"
before the DTD which will "break" IE

**meirarmon** · 07-09-2010, 06:56 AM

Where did they come from? in all my php code i did not output any html. I am trying to get rid of them.

**colbyt** · 07-09-2010, 12:07 PM

What do you use for a text editor? Notepad does weird things sometimes and all word processors do almost all the time. Grab a free copy of notepad2 or the like to use for editing.

Nothing jumped out at me in the file above.

**meirarmon** · 07-11-2010, 07:42 AM

I managed to solve it.

What I did was, I converted all the encoding of the include files to utf8 without BOM and it worked. Can anyone tell me why this was the solution?

Thanks for everything

**chrishirst** · 07-11-2010, 08:15 AM

Because the BOM is before the DTD which "breaks" IE by putting it into "quirks mode".

The characters before the DTD means that IE will ignore the Doctype and (mis)behave as if the DTD was not there

**mgraphic** · 07-12-2010, 04:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by meirarmon

I managed to solve it.

What I did was, I converted all the encoding of the include files to utf8 without BOM and it worked. Can anyone tell me why this was the solution?

Thanks for everything

What is BOM?

**chrishirst** · 07-12-2010, 05:31 PM

Byte Order Mark

It indicates whether the document is using "big endian" or "little endian" coding.