Local Web Sharing php issue

Question

I am running OS 10.6 on a macbook pro. I host copies of my websites for testing on the laptop, using php5.3.8
Darwin Kernel Version 10.8.0:
My web host runs FreeBSD 6.4 and php 5.3.6
I am having an issue with extra space rendering in pages on the testing server.
Below is a screen shot of a php-generated menu. On the left is the internet version, and on the right is the version as it is rendered on my local machine.
Note the unsightly extra space.
When I look at the source code in BBedit, it shows an odd character at the start of each iteration of the menu. The first three lines are hard-coded, and do not have the character. The subsequent list items are generated by a foreach statement in php, and display the odd character. (BBedit doesn't know what it is: it's not a break or a whitespace character.) Oddly, these characters are not created by a foreach statement within the loop that generates submenus.
Any ideas? I had this issue once before, but it went away. I've just upgraded the php installation on the laptop.

Answer 1

very carefully
you jsut open it in a text editor like TextMate, BBEdit, vi, pico, emacs, etc.. and edit away. Where the file live depends on how you installed php. Its generally in <pre>[path to php]/lib<pre>
if you used one of the entropy binaries that would be:
<pre>/usr/local/php/lib/php.ini</pre>
or
<pre>/usr/local/php5/lib/php.ini</pre>
if you used another package check its documentation. If you compiled from source yourself you should know d**n well where you put it