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.

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Answer 1

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); 

:)