Tiffany B. Brown » whitespace http://tiffanybbrown.com A web log about web development and internet culture with frequent detours into other stuff. Wed, 23 May 2012 16:23:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Debugging tip: “Disallowed Key Character” error in CodeIgniter http://tiffanybbrown.com/2008/05/06/debugging-tip-disallowed-key-character-error-in-codeigniter/ http://tiffanybbrown.com/2008/05/06/debugging-tip-disallowed-key-character-error-in-codeigniter/#comments Tue, 06 May 2008 21:24:17 +0000 tiffany http://tiffanybbrown.com/?p=1285 After 6 hours of massive anxiety, stress, near tears, one pound on my desk, and some hair pulling, I tracked down the source of a nagging Disallowed Key Character error that I received while using CodeIgniter: an extra line break.

The line feed (LF) and carriage return (CR) characters (and their hex code equivalents (%0D and %0A) are forbidden in CodeIgniter’s framework. The hard part is tracking down exactly where that extra line break character lives.

In my case, there was an extra line of blank, barren, not-all-that-obvious white space at the very, very end of one of my controller files, just after the closing ?>.

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