Posted by Catalin Trifu on 06/30/05 17:18

Hi,

It seems to me you are going the wrong way with "embedded" PHP;
try separating logic from view, tons of mvc frameworks out there and
templating engines.
Try firefox with web developer extension -> Validate Local HTML.

Catalin


Rick Emery wrote:
> And now for something completely different...
>
> I have a question that has been nagging at me. I've searched the
> archives, FAQs, and web sites, but haven't found an answer.
>
> I have two ways that I've output HTML with PHP; one is to write the
> HTML, using the PHP tags to execute code when necessary. The other is to
> store the entire HTML output file in a string variable with
> concatenation and call the print (or echo) function at the bottom to
> output the page.
>
> Are there advantages one way or the other?
>
> This leads (sort of) to a second question: how can I validate my HTML?
> My applications run on an intranet (with database access), so I can't
> use the W3C Validator to point to the URL. If I try to upload the file,
> the validator doesn't parse the PHP to get the HTML output (which is why
> I wonder if I'm not better writing the HTML and sticking PHP where it's
> needed). Is there a way for me to maybe use the PHP tidy functions on
> the string containing the HTML ouput to validate it?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Rick

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