How to remove multiple UTF-8 BOM sequences

Question

Using PHP5 (cgi) to output template files from the filesystem and having issues spitting out raw HTML.

private function fetch($name) {     $path = $this->j->config['template_path'] . $name . '.html';     if (!file_exists($path)) {         dbgerror('Could not find the template "' . $name . '" in ' . $path);     }     $f = fopen($path, 'r');     $t = fread($f, filesize($path));     fclose($f);     if (substr($t, 0, 3) == b'\xef\xbb\xbf') {         $t = substr($t, 3);     }     return $t; } 

Even though I've added the BOM fix I'm still having problems with Firefox accepting it. You can see a live copy here: http://ircb.in/jisti/ (and the template file I threw at http://ircb.in/jisti/home.html if you want to check it out)

Any idea how to fix this? o_o

Answer 1

you would use the following code to remove utf8 bom

//Remove UTF8 Bom  function remove_utf8_bom($text) {     $bom = pack('H*','EFBBBF');     $text = preg_replace("/^$bom/", '', $text);     return $text; } 

Answer 2

try:

// -------- read the file-content ---- $str = file_get_contents($source_file);   // -------- remove the utf-8 BOM ---- $str = str_replace("\xEF\xBB\xBF",'',$str);   // -------- get the Object from JSON ----  $obj = json_decode($str);  

:)