Editors

[joejv4]

I found that the editor you use can mean the difference between having problems with a phpBB site and not having problems. I was using UltraEdit, and for some reason it was inserting an unprintable character at the beginning of the file, which I could not remove. This caused an error on the page. I have since switched to Nptepad++ and have had no issues.

[ah-blabla]

Are you talking about the BOM? If so, in most editors you can change whether or not it includes the BOM, so the problem probably was that UltraEdit inserted a BOM by default, Notepad++ didn't.