Strange characters after artisan optimize

[Macsch15]

Hello,
I have issue on my vagrant box (php7dev), after php artisan optimize (via composer install/update) I got strange characters on any page (CLI/phpunit too):

Everything is fine when I remove file:

/bootstrap/cache/compiled.php

Laravel Framework version 5.2.39
PHP 5.6.16-dev (cli) (built: Oct 22 2015 16:13:30)
Debian GNU/Linux 8.2 (jessie)
Composer version 1.1.3 2016-06-26 15:42:08

Can someone explain this? I can't reproduce this on my shared hosting.
Thanks

[GrahamCampbell]

What does your compiled file look like?

[Macsch15]

compiled.zip

[GrahamCampbell]

Looks fine to me. Did you compile that file on the same server you're running the code on?

[GrahamCampbell]

What happens if you run optimize with the force flag?

[Macsch15]

Did you compile that file on the same server you're running the code on?

Yes.

What happens if you run optimize with the force flag?

The same results.

[JoostK]

It has probably something to do with the file encoding. Your compiled.php shows the following under OS X:

$ file -I compiled.php 
# compiled.php: application/octet-stream; charset=binary

When ran on a different PHP file I get text/x-php; charset=us-ascii.

[Macsch15]

[JoostK]

Try creating the file yourself with the contents copied over. I'm not convinced the file is what it should be 😅

[thecrypticace]

Just a guess but it seems to me that the file is being interpreted as UTF-16BE (BE = Big Endian) and not UTF-8. Though, I'm not sure why. Perhaps there's a setting your php.ini file that's causing this?

Try running php -i | grep encoding on your vagrant box and report the details back here. I'm guessing one of the settings is going to say UTF-16.

This is what the file looks like when interpreting as UTF-16BE:

[Macsch15]

php -i | grep encoding output:

[thecrypticace]

That's definitely strange. Not sure what the issue is.

[Macsch15]

I discover something, when I fire artisan optimize on PHP 5.5 (PHP 5.5.31-dev (cli) (built: Oct 22 2015 16:24:08)) everything is fine.

compiled.php from PHP 5.6:
compiled56.zip

and PHP 5.5
compiled55.zip

PHP 7.0 - the same problem

[themsaid]

Hello everyone, any updates on this issue? Still facing the problem? is it fixed? Don't seem to be able to regenerate and the thread makes it look like it happens randomly :)

[Macsch15]

After this update:

Updating dependencies (including require-dev)
  - Removing symfony/var-dumper (v3.1.4)
  - Installing symfony/var-dumper (v3.1.5)
    Downloading: 100%

  - Removing symfony/translation (v3.1.4)
  - Installing symfony/translation (v3.1.5)
    Downloading: 100%

  - Removing symfony/routing (v3.1.4)
  - Installing symfony/routing (v3.1.5)
    Loading from cache

  - Removing symfony/process (v3.1.4)
  - Installing symfony/process (v3.1.5)
    Downloading: 100%

  - Removing symfony/http-foundation (v3.1.4)
  - Installing symfony/http-foundation (v3.1.5)
    Downloading: 100%

  - Removing symfony/event-dispatcher (v3.1.4)
  - Installing symfony/event-dispatcher (v3.1.5)
    Loading from cache

  - Removing psr/log (1.0.0)
  - Installing psr/log (1.0.2)
    Downloading: 100%

  - Removing symfony/debug (v3.1.4)
  - Installing symfony/debug (v3.1.5)
    Downloading: 100%

  - Removing symfony/http-kernel (v3.1.4)
  - Installing symfony/http-kernel (v3.1.5)
    Downloading: 100%

  - Removing symfony/finder (v3.1.4)
  - Installing symfony/finder (v3.1.5)
    Downloading: 100%

  - Removing symfony/console (v3.1.4)
  - Installing symfony/console (v3.1.5)
    Downloading: 100%

  - Removing ramsey/uuid (3.5.0)
  - Installing ramsey/uuid (3.5.1)
    Downloading: 100%

  - Removing nikic/php-parser (v2.1.0)
  - Installing nikic/php-parser (v2.1.1)
    Downloading: 100%

  - Removing league/flysystem (1.0.27)
  - Installing league/flysystem (1.0.28)
    Downloading: 100%

  - Removing laravel/framework (v5.3.6)
  - Installing laravel/framework (v5.3.18)
    Downloading: 100%

  - Removing symfony/yaml (v3.1.4)
  - Installing symfony/yaml (v3.1.5)
    Downloading: 100%

  - Removing phpunit/phpunit-mock-objects (3.2.7)
  - Installing phpunit/phpunit-mock-objects (3.4.0)
    Downloading: 100%

  - Removing phpdocumentor/reflection-docblock (3.1.0)
  - Installing phpdocumentor/reflection-docblock (3.1.1)
    Downloading: 100%

  - Removing myclabs/deep-copy (1.5.2)
  - Installing myclabs/deep-copy (1.5.4)
    Downloading: 100%

  - Removing phpunit/phpunit (5.5.4)
  - Installing phpunit/phpunit (5.6.1)
    Downloading: 100%

  - Removing symfony/css-selector (v3.1.4)
  - Installing symfony/css-selector (v3.1.5)
    Downloading: 100%

  - Removing symfony/dom-crawler (v3.1.4)
  - Installing symfony/dom-crawler (v3.1.5)
    Loading from cache

This issue is not existing anymore. I still have no idea why.

[themsaid]

Let's close it then since there were zero progress anyways :) Please feel free to ping me if the problem re-appeared in a 5.3 installation.