PHP code won't validate

**jwgrafflin** · 06-01-2008, 07:36 AM

Using

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml">

This line of my PHP code will not validate:

Code:

<td><a href="<?php echo $url; ?>" rel="external"><?php echo $hostname; ?></a></td>

I get the following errors, although the code works just fine:

Line 109, Column 20: XML Parsing Error: Unescaped '<' not allowed in attributes values.

Line 109, Column 20: XML Parsing Error: attributes construct error.

Line 109, Column 20: XML Parsing Error: Couldn't find end of Start Tag a line 109.

Line 109, Column > 80: XML Parsing Error: Opening and ending tag mismatch: td line 109 and a.

Line 109, Column > 80: XML Parsing Error: Opening and ending tag mismatch: tr line 108 and td.

Line 121, Column 11: XML Parsing Error: Opening and ending tag mismatch: table line 68 and tr.

Line 126, Column 10: XML Parsing Error: Opening and ending tag mismatch: div line 43 and table.

Line 228, Column 6: XML Parsing Error: Opening and ending tag mismatch: body line 28 and div.

Line 295, Column 7: XML Parsing Error: Opening and ending tag mismatch: html line 2 and body.

The page where the code resides is http://www.webhosting-depot.com/compare-hosts.php

**simster** · 06-01-2008, 07:39 AM

maybe do a php echo the whole thing

PHP Code:


			
<?php
echo'<td><a href="'.$url.'" rel="external">'.$hostname.'</a></td>';
?>

this code should work

**jwgrafflin** · 07:49 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by simster

maybe do a php echo the whole thing

PHP Code:


			
<?php
echo'<td><a href="'.$url.'" rel="external">'.$hostname.'</a></td>';
?>

this code should work

That took care of the validation problem, but now the code doesn't work.

I stand corrected on that statement. The code doesn't work as an html document (that is, when I plug in the header, footer, etc. to the php document). But as a php document, it works just fine.

**simster** · 06-01-2008, 07:56 AM

thats good.

If you have any more problems just ask for a fix here.

(I do sometimes as well)

**Arenlor** · 06-01-2008, 05:11 PM

First off you should try encoding your ampersands in links. After that, the error seems to be gone?

**jwgrafflin** · 06:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Arenlor

First off you should try encoding your ampersands in links. After that, the error seems to be gone?

There are no ampersands, so that does not apply here.

**Arenlor** · 06-01-2008, 07:12 PM

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=ht...Inline&group=0 there are many ampersands.

**jwgrafflin** · 06-01-2008, 08:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Arenlor

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=ht...Inline&group=0 there are many ampersands.

Yep, there certainly are if you check the whole document. And each of them is properly coded. The only thing that would not validate was the single line of code I submitted.

Once it was corrected, and only it, the page validated.

**Arenlor** · 06-02-2008, 10:01 PM

Actually there are 38 errors and it's invalid.

**jwgrafflin** · 06-03-2008, 12:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Arenlor

Actually there are 38 errors and it's invalid.

That's because you're testing the page after mysql data has been added. However, the raw page code does validate, which is all I'm concerned about right now.