[Paul M]

Originally Posted by Flying Gremlin

Notepad is my text editor of choice and the only one I use.

Then notepad is adding them. They are known as the Byte Order Mark (or BOM) and bacically get added to signal the file is utf-8 format. PHP cannot handle them. You need to either use an editor that doesnt add them, or find out how to edit/save files in notepad without it adding them.

Originally Posted by Vikingant

Edit to add: We are changing the file /includes/class_core.php right? Just making sure there isnat another instance somewhere I should be looking for. I did see one under /mgc_cb_evo/classes/class_core.php. Might that be upsetting it?

You are changing the correct file, no idea what the other file is, looks like some kind of modification supplied file.