PHP Parser Error When Viewing Same File Saved in Windows

I have a PHP file for my website, index.php, which, as it stands on the server, it works correctly, no errors triggered and the page loads as it should.

The server is a Linux server running Apache, and my local machine is a Windows machine. Using the FileZilla Windows client, I download index.php and open the file in Notepad++ in Windows. I save this file in Windows, and then upload and overwrite the file on the server. The page now does not load, with this error on the page:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end in /path/to/my/site/index.php on line 1

I've Googled this error quite a bit, and all of the answers I've come across detail that it's either a PHP short tags problem (replacing <? with <?php, but the file does not include any short tags) or a stray bracket somewhere in the file (but I've checked and all brackets are correctly matched). Besides, I do not touch the source itself, and simply save the file after opening it, so since it works before but not after the local Windows save, I have to believe it's a line-ending problem between Windows and Unix.

What is even more puzzling is that I was able to create a test.php that开发者_JAVA技巧 just called phpinfo(), and saved it in Windows and uploaded, and the page correctly loads when I call it from within my web browser. The problem must be related to how Notepad++ translates a non-Windows created file with Unix or Mac-based line-endings to Windows line-endings, and it somehow gets clobbered.

Any ideas? I'll try to provide more information if I've omitted anything, but I really don't think the source is required here.

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Try setting transfer type to BINARY instead of TEXT in your filezilla client. This might be an issue with transfer encoding rather than notepad++ as I have faced a similar problem earlier which was resolved by forcing transfer to binary.