How can the presence of a Byte Order Mark (BOM) affect PHP code execution?

The presence of a Byte Order Mark (BOM) in a PHP file can cause issues such as outputting unwanted characters before the actual content, leading to errors or unexpected behavior in the code execution. To solve this issue, you can simply save your PHP files without the BOM. 

<?php
// PHP code without Byte Order Mark (BOM)
echo "Hello, World!";
?>

Keywords

Byte Order Mark BOM PHP code execution character encoding UTF-8.

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