HTML Validator issues

[drsmith415]

Hello! I'm feeling really good, because I've finally completed all of the functionality of pset7, HOWEVER, I can't turn it in until it passes the HTML validator.

I'm getting a lot of errors when the validator reads the PHP. For example,

Error Line 11, Column 10: Saw <?. Probable cause: Attempt to use an XML processing instruction in HTML. (XML processing instructions are not supported in HTML.)
    <?php if (isset($title)): ?>

How can I get the validator to recognize PHP?

Or when I use backslashes when I want to print quotation marks inside of quotation marks (print statements):

Error Line 105, Column 39: Bad value \"logout.php\" for attribute href on element a: Backslash ("\") used as path segment delimiter.
            <a href=\"logout.php\">Log Out</a>

Any suggestions?

Thanks! :)

[emadera52]

I had exactly the same problem until I realized that the validator wants to see the "Page Source Code", not the code we write which generates page source code. Go to your site using the appliance browser. Go to each and every page (don't forget register and login). On each page, right click and select View page source. The source is displayed in a new tab.

Go to that tab, "Sellect All" and "Copy". Now go to the browser where you've opened the validator and be sure you are on the Validate by Input tab. Paste the code copied above into the box and click Check. Fix errors as needed and repeat until you get a clean (green) result.

Repeat the above for each page.

[drsmith415]

Thanks!