` (backtick) appearing in Cakephp view - php

Question

A backtick appears in my rendered view in my cakephp application. They sometimes appear in two places:
At the very start of the body
After echo $this->Form->create();
I can't see a pattern that causes the problem. Is there a known problem that produces backticks?
Example of backtick appearing after Form->create()
<div class="users form">
<h2><?php echo __('Change password'); ?></h2>
<?php
echo $this->Form->create();
echo $this->Form->input(
'password_new',
array(
'label' => 'New Password',
'type' => 'password',
'div' => 'input password required',
'required' => 'required',
)
);
echo $this->Form->input(
'password_new_confirm',
array(
'label' => 'New Password Again',
'type' => 'password',
'div' => 'input password required',
'required' => 'required',
)
);
echo $this->Form->end(__('Change password'));
?>
</div>
<div class="actions">
<?php echo $this->Html->link(__('Back To Settings'), array('action' => 'settings',)); ?>
</div>
Screenshot of HTML output:

Answer 1

Found a backtick in my User model, such an idiot, thanks Summea

Answer 2

As you have noted in your answer, it sounds like the backtick ended up being in another file (in this case, your User model file.)
This is one of the downsides of working with CakePHP: text that is outside of your <?php ... ?> tags will be rendered to the final, outputted view that end users will see (in addition to the actual "view" that was only supposed to be shown to the end user.)
This can even happen when using an echo statement in a particular controller, as well.
For example, using:
echo 'random text that should not be displayed from a controller';
will result in displaying that "random text" in the final, outputted view.
Basically, CakePHP does not seem to enforce a super clean view "output" process (and this is probably, in part, because of the way PHP inherently works...) so it is mostly up to the developer to keep track of desired view output.