Title: Functions.php Become Corrupted?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Functions.php Become Corrupted?

 *  [ralph23](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ralph23/)
 * (@ralph23)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/functionsphp-become-corrupted/)
 * Alright, I’ve just began offering my free wordpress theme for download, the demo
   site is here:
    [http://forthelose.org/themes/rocksolid](http://forthelose.org/themes/rocksolid)
 * Now, I’ve noticed that 1 out of 10 times (for me), if I upload the entire theme
   via ftp and activate it, I’ll get an error along the lines of:
 * `Parse error on line 62 of functions.php, unexpected "}"`
 * When I go to view functions.php, I see that once it hits line 62, the entire 
   code is shoved onto one line and its unreadable. The only fix I’ve come across
   is to upload functions.php manually (and not via ftp).
 * Is there something wrong with my file? Only one of the downloaders of my theme
   have reported the same problem (out of the current 250+).
 * Here’s the functions.php file:
    [http://www.savefile.com/files/2025086](http://www.savefile.com/files/2025086)
 * **ANY help appreciated!**
    (Has anyone else come across this bug?)

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 *  Thread Starter [ralph23](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ralph23/)
 * (@ralph23)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/functionsphp-become-corrupted/#post-1006013)
 * bump
 *  Thread Starter [ralph23](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ralph23/)
 * (@ralph23)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/functionsphp-become-corrupted/#post-1006083)
 * bump
 *  [iridiax](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iridiax/)
 * (@iridiax)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/functionsphp-become-corrupted/#post-1006089)
 * I downloaded and looked at your functions.php with a code editor, and I found
   bad formatting characters (rendered as boxes) at the beginning of many lines.
   The text editor you used to create the functions.php or the text editor you copy
   and pasted from caused this. The code looks like this (with paired brackets since
   the bad boxes won’t show here):
 * []if ( function_exists(‘register_sidebar’) )
 *  Thread Starter [ralph23](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ralph23/)
 * (@ralph23)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/functionsphp-become-corrupted/#post-1006098)
 * Hm… thats odd. I just downloaded the same file and opened it in Notepad++ (the
   text editor I use) as well as plain old Notepad and I didn’t see those boxes.
 * What did you open the file in?
 * Thanks for helping, btw.
 *  [iridiax](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iridiax/)
 * (@iridiax)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/functionsphp-become-corrupted/#post-1006100)
 * > I just downloaded the same file and opened it in Notepad++ (the text editor
   > I use) as well as plain old Notepad and I didn’t see those boxes.
 * The text editor adding the normally invisible control/format characters won’t
   show them. You may have to adjust your line break settings.
 * > What did you open the file in?
 * I use BBEdit (for Mac only), which handles Unix, Windows, and Mac text. BBEdit
   has the option to strip text gremlins (control characters, line feeds, and null
   and non-ASCII characters), and I’ve had to use this option more than once when
   copying code from the web or from another application.
 *  [iridiax](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iridiax/)
 * (@iridiax)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/functionsphp-become-corrupted/#post-1006101)
 * I just tested it, and your box characters are actually **control characters**.
 *  Thread Starter [ralph23](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ralph23/)
 * (@ralph23)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/functionsphp-become-corrupted/#post-1006106)
 * Oh I see.
 * After googling around a bit, I can’t seem to find an answer as to how to remove
   them. Any tips? (thanks again)
 *  [iridiax](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iridiax/)
 * (@iridiax)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/functionsphp-become-corrupted/#post-1006108)
 * It’s probably a setting/option in Notepad++. If not, you could try a different
   text/code editor. I’m sure that there are free ones available for Windows.

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 * 8 replies
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 * Last activity: [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/functionsphp-become-corrupted/#post-1006108)
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