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Asked: 2026-05-24T14:02:42+00:00

I wrote a small MVC app for a small website I am working on.

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I wrote a small MVC app for a small website I am working on. I created a load method that loads the header, footer, and the specified view file. I am having issues to where the header is not loading all of the JS files and the entire document’s HTML structure is missing indents.

Header.php: 

 <!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
   <meta charset="utf-8">
   <title><?php echo $meta['title']; ?></title>

   <?php //load all of the css files
        foreach (glob("layout/css/*.css") as $css_filename)
            { 
              echo  '<link rel="stylesheet" href="'.INSTALL_PATH.'/'.$css_filename.'">';
            }


        //load all of the js files 
        foreach (glob("layout/js/*.js") as $js_filename)
            { 
              echo '<script src="'.INSTALL_PATH.'/'.$js_filename.'"></script>';
            }


        ?>
</head>
<body>

Renders as: 

<!DOCTYPE html> 
<html lang=en> 
<head> 
<meta charset=utf-8> 
<title>Test Title</title> 
<link rel=stylesheet href="/labs/wpsm/layout/css/style.css"><script></script></head> 
<body>

One weird thing that I discovered is that if I include random text before the doctype declaration, everything is back to normal.

With extra character: 

 s
    <!DOCTYPE html>
    <html lang="en">
    <head>
       <meta charset="utf-8">
       <title>Test Title</title>
       <link rel="stylesheet" href="/labs/wpsm/layout/css/style.css"><script src="/labs/wpsm/layout/js/test.js"></script></head>
    <body>

What am I missing here? I checked the character encoding of the page and it is utf-8. Any help or pointers would be awesome!

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  1. Editorial Team

    Just figured it out as I was messing around with the server. I discovered that it had mod_pagespeed enabled, I disabled the mod_pagespeed module (Google Page Speed for Apache) and it fixed the indenting and the JS file starting working. The module was automatically removing the JS file because it was a blank file I had put into the directory just to make sure the PHP was pulling the files properly. Thank you everyone for the help and I hope this helps someone save a few fistfuls of hair.

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