Posted by Toby A Inkster on 06/26/07 15:51

dorayme wrote:

> I have been getting some strange characters appear from my local
> server when some markup is delivered via a php include.

This probably isn't your problem, but I thought I'd like to mention
it anyway, just in case.

Mac OS X likes to create a hidden file in each directory called
".DS_Store". If you use any PHP code that loops through an entire
directory and includes each file found there (which is what I do
to load plugins for my CMS) then this will cause the binary
".DS_Store" file to be included, adding about a kilobyte or so of
random crap to your output. This happens if you're using Mac OS X
as your server OS (as I was), or have uploaded an entire directory
from a Mac OS X development machine onto your server.

I solved this by telling my plugin loading mechanism to ignore all
files with names that start with a dot.

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