Base64Encoder vs PHP online

[Dude]

Here's a (modified) example from the PureBasic manual:

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*Text = UTF8("This is an encoded string")

Encoded$ = Base64Encoder(*Text, MemorySize(*Text))
Debug "Encoded: " + Encoded$

*DecodedBuffer = AllocateMemory(1024)
Base64Decoder(Encoded$, *DecodedBuffer, 1024)
Debug "Decoded: " + PeekS(*DecodedBuffer, -1, #PB_UTF8)

When run, it outputs this for the encoded string:

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VGhpcyBpcyBhbiBlbmNvZGVkIHN0cmluZwA=

But the end of it differs from http://php.net/manual/en/function.base64-encode.php :

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VGhpcyBpcyBhbiBlbmNvZGVkIHN0cmluZw==

Is this a bug with PureBasic? If not, how can I make PureBasic match the PHP version? I need them to match, because my website's PHP script also outputs the same code as the PHP.net website above. PureBasic is the one out of the three that is wrong.

Here's my website's PHP script if it helps:

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<?php
$text = "This is an encoded string";
$text = base64_encode($text);
echo $text;
?>

[srod]

Try removing the terminating null from the memory being encoded.

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Encoded$ = Base64Encoder(*Text, MemorySize(*Text)-1)

[Dude]

Thanks srod, that works. Seems the manual example has a bug, then. Reported.

[infratec]

I don't think that i is a bug

Base64Encoder() does what it should.
If you include an additional 0 in the buffer, then it is your fault.

[Dude]

I didn't include it, the example in the manual did. Like I said, it's a manual bug.

[infratec]

It is also no manual/help bug.
If the writer wanted to include the trailing 0 it is 100% Ok.

It is not written that this example produces the same output as php.

So a new php user can also say the help of php is wrong, because it does not include a trailing 0 like a C or PB example code.

[Dude]

It is not written that this example produces the same output as php.

Well, I think it's quite obvious and commonsense that the output of it will be compared with other external results, just as I did. Every single PHP Base64 site that I tested showed the same result, with PureBasic being the only one different. The manual example should match the other site results to avoid this type of confusion. IMO, anyway. Obviously not yours.