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I'm trying to include a small script I've written which calls main.inc.php in an html file via "include virtual" in Apache. But for just this script I only get garbage unless I remove the call to main.inc.php or print something above the call to main.inc.php. The script works perfectly when run stand-alone, so does any other script I've tried.

Does anyone know what my problem is and what I can do about it? It works at the moment, but it is a bit annoying to have to print something above the require.

Hmmmm ... I wonder if the Content-Type or Content-Encoding headers are failing to get set properly.

You don't happen to have Proxomitron installed on your PC, do you? It has an option for logging all the request and response headers, which is very useful for cases like this.

Never heard of Proxomitron and am an all Linux guy anyway. I've been thinking of installing some program to snoop headers, but haven't got around to it.

But the headers shouldn't be sent should they? ubbt.inc.php by itself doesn't do anything, and I only use the db object.

Unlike Perl, PHP automatically sends the headers when a script first sends output to the browser, unless the script has previously sent the headers explicitly. I haven't used PHP in conjunction with SSI before, so I don't know how it handles that situation.

I'm just making a wild guess. This problem may have nothing to do with faulty headers.

Do you have zlib compression enabled? (another wild guess)

But the strange thing is that I've never had a problem before, I use a lot of php scripts included via ssi. Also main.inc.php shouldn't do any output by itself, at least as far as I know.