[FLOW3-general] Fatal error: Encoding declaration pragma must be the very first statement in the script in ... (Clean mail)

[Dan Osipov]

Thank you very much for debugging it!

Dan Osipov
Calkins Media
http://danosipov.com/blog/

Marco Weber wrote:
> (CLEAN MAIL)
> 
> Hi at all,
> 
> Some people using flow3 will see the following error message:
> 
>  >> Fatal error: Encoding declaration pragma must be the very first
>  >> statement in the script in
>  >> /var/www/flow3/Packages/Global/FLOW3/Classes/Core/Bootstrap.php on 
> line 2
> 
> 
> Well, this happens when you compile PHP 5.3.x with the option 
> '--enable-zend-multibyte'.
> According to the php doc 
> (http://php.net/manual/en/control-structures.declare.php):
> The encoding declare value is ignored in PHP 5.3 unless php is compiled 
> with --enable-zend-multibyte.
> ...and this will lead to a fatal error in case you have also an defined 
> encoding in included files!
> 
> ( I ran over this bug tonight after having compiled a new php version 
> with the option '--enable-zend-multibyte'. )
> 
> i reported the bug to the php developers. It is available under the 
> following URL:
> http://bugs.php.net/50464
> 
> 
> if you have php5.3.x with '--enable-zend-multibyte', there are 2 solutions:
> 1. Solution: compile another PHP5.3.x version WITHOUT 
> '--enable-zend-multibyte'
> 
> 2. Solution: remove all declare encoding lines from all php scripts:
> under linux just type the following line:
> find . -type f -iname '*.php' -exec sed -i -e "s/declare\(.*\)\;//" "{}" 
> ";"
> 
> 
> See you
>    Marco Weber
> 
> 
> BTW: This is also an answer to 
> http://lists.typo3.org/pipermail/typo3-project-5_0-general/2009-July/002275.html 
>