How to call php file in XHTML? 1

[MasumX]

Hi, how do i include a .php extention file in "XHTML"? when i used the php syntax it gave me a error saying

Line 161, column 34: processing instruction does not start with name

<? include("random.php") ?>


so can anyone help? how i can include the file by calling the php file ? thanks!

 

[Foamcow]

The error may well be on the previous line.
Can we see the rest of the code?

You can include files in just the way you have within XHTML as it's the included file that get's parsed as XHTML content (or PHP output).

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[ChrisHirst]

does the file you are trying to include into have a .php extension ?


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[CliveC]

If you are talking about code validation, you may need to do this:

<script language="php">
</script>

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[trollacious]

What MasumX is doing is putting a PHP server side scripting function call on an XHTML page. All PHP has to be processed on the server, so you'd have to set up your server to run whatever extension you have on this page (.html, .htm, .xml, etc) through the PHP processor first.

Lee

 

[ChrisHirst]

CliveC.
you can't run PHP on server-side script tags it's a server-side language. So maybe you would like to explain exactly what you mean.



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[CliveC]

There are different ways of including PHP code. Since I generally use <script language="php"> and since I do not get validation problems it seemed like that might be a possibility.


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[CliveC]

To make it clear this is what I was suggesting:

<script language="php">
include('random.php')
</script>

Note that the quotes around the file name should be single quotes also.

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[vongrunt]

Yes, that is syntactically correct but for this problem difference between <?, <? php and <script language="php"> is irrelevant.

"processing instruction does not start with name" error is W3C/X(HT)ML validator thing. MasumX probably attempted to includes PHP island within .XHTML file. Because server is configured to pass-thru .XHTML files, this won't work. Two ways to solve this:

a) configure server to preprocess .XHTML files with PHP
b) use vanilla .PHP URL that generates XHTML and eventually sets HTTP Content-type

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[Sheco]

Does anyone have any good links that explain how to use PHP to write realtime drivers for embedded devices? Specifically I would like to use PHP to for motor control on a linear actuator. Thsnks!!1one!1

 

[vongrunt]

With or without transdimensional frobnicator? Ya know, this makes a biiig difference.

(j/k)

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[CliveC]

If you use anything other than a php extension for files that include PHP code (or php includes) then I believe that the code would then be visible. Not a good idea!

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[trollacious]

No, you can set the PHP processor to handle other extensions without a problem, and process the script in them before sending the final result to the client.

Lee

 

[CliveC]

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HTML Validation Results
Document Checked

    * Character encoding: UTF-8
    * Level of HTML: XHTML 1.0 Transitional

Congratulations, no errors!
Input

 1   <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
 2   "[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">[/URL]
 3   <html xmlns="[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"[/URL] xml:lang="en" lang="en">
 4   <head><title>PHP includes</title>
 5   <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" />
 6   </head><body>
 7   <script language="php" type="text/php">
 8   include('fsethgen.php');
 9   </script>
10   </body></html>

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[vongrunt]

Urgh... I suggest we stop chasing our tails until original poster answers on following question:

What was actual problem?

a) XHTML file won't validate
b) output generated by random.php won't include
c) both

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[ChrisHirst]

It doesn't matter if you surround it with script tags and it validates or not. The simple fact is it SHOULDN'T[/b} be in the page source. It is only there because the server is NOT sending the page through the PHP processor.

Simple!!!!!

stop confusing the issue with irrelevancies. The PHP code and tags shouldn't be there FULL STOP



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[CliveC]

http://tubularity.com/test.htm

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[CliveC]

It doesn't matter if you surround it with script tags and it validates or not. The simple fact is it SHOULDN'T be in the page source. It is only there because the server is NOT sending the page through the PHP processor.

<?, <?php and <script language="php"> all do the same thing. Some validate some do not.

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[Sheco]

I like to write raw x86 assembly in my pages.

It isn't hard to get them to validate ...

<!--
        pushl %ebp
        movl %esp,%ebp
        subl $8,%esp
        movl $10,-4(%ebp)  
        movl -4(%ebp),%edx 
-->

See, the secret is to use a magical character sequence! All of your assembly must begin with <!-- and end with --> only then will it validate!