Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 04/27/07 12:37

webrod wrote:
> oups! thanks you, I didn't know that.
> I thought it was not possible.
> Sorry about that.
>
> I provide my answer here:
>
> Hi,
>
> I guess I was not clear enough.
>
> I do not want to validate the output of a php page, I want to validate
> the php page itself.
> My php code NEVER provides HTML code. That's a very important rule I
> follow.
> I mean I never do that:
> <?php echo "<a href='$myLink'>go to my link</a>" ?>
> I do that:
> <a href='<?php echo $myLink?>'>go to my link</a>
>
> Actually I have the main php page which does the business (only PHP
> code, no HTML at all), then I include a template with HTML code + a
> little bit of php code.
>
> I would like now to find a tool which is able to validate my XHTML
> code (within the template) and udpate the XHTML to be conformed with
> W3C rules.
> For example it should automatically update <br> to <br/>.
> TIDY does this work. Unfortunatelly it doesn't like php tags and
> remove a lot of them.
>
> I would like to work on the templates and not on the output to do the
> job automatically.
> If I work on the output, I have to manually update all the templates!!
> Unfortunatelly I have a lot of templates.
>
> Do you have an idea?
>
> thanks
>
> rod
>

Rod,

As Alvaro said - http://validator.w3.org.

How you generate the html (and yes, you are using PHP to generate HTML -
the link destination in the href is part of html) is unimportant. The
result is html.

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