I tried to download code for this book. After unzipping it, all the code has wrapped up in the text file with all the weird characters in between. I need to seperate each and every line. Has anybody experienced the same problem? Thanks.

Open the text files with a word processor such as Wordpad or a WYSIWYG like DW, not a text editor like Notepad.

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humm I don't have much experience with php and I may be wrong but I don't think that opening the files on notepad creates any problem. The .php files are suppose to be no more than test files which are parsed by php which puts sense into it. I will say your file got corrupted or something.

Christian

Christian

If you tried it, you would see that, in the text files, in Notepad, there are many square characters that seem to represent escaped characters such as line breaks and tabs. Wordpad, however, interprets these characters correctly.

Strange that when I tried to post an example the characters were interpreted by the clipboard....

HTH

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You certainly don't want to use a Word processor though, those are a nightmare to code with. It's likely due to what characters are used for line endings. Just try a more advanced plain text editor.

AFAIK there is a whole appendix of recommended text editors in that book. Personally, I use Crimson Editor... http://www.crimsoneditor.com.

Here's a recent thread on the topic.
http://p2p.wrox.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=15943

HTH!

Regards,
Rich

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By word processor I meant Wordpad or something, which can save into plain text format.

But yeah, coding in Word is difficult to say the least.

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