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Bug #48127 Namespace error when file saved as UTF-8
Submitted: 2009-05-01 20:17 UTC Modified: 2009-05-01 20:31 UTC
From: sol at venasoft dot com Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: Class/Object related
PHP Version: 5.3.0RC1 OS: Windows XP
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2009-05-01 20:17 UTC] sol at venasoft dot com
Description:
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Scripts containing namespaces fail with an error if the file is saved in encoding UTF-8, but works as expected when saved in encoding ANSI using Windows Notepad.

Only namespaces seem to be effected by this error.

Reproduce code:
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<?php

namespace
{
	print 'Hello World';
}


Expected result:
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Hello World

Actual result:
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Fatal error: Namespace declaration statement has to be the very first statement in the script in C:\home\public_html\name.php on line 4

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 [2009-05-01 20:31 UTC] derick@php.net
Thank you for taking the time to write to us, but this is not
a bug. Please double-check the documentation available at
http://www.php.net/manual/ and the instructions on how to report
a bug at http://bugs.php.net/how-to-report.php

Quite likely you have a BOM in this PHP file. You need to configure your editor not to write those.
 
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