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!

 

[sedj]

Ermmmm ... I was under the impression that PHP should only run server-side - to then generate HTML/CSS/JavaScript dynamically (which is what any *validator* should see) - so I'm not following the point of posting a link to an HTML file that happens to have some PHP in it ?!

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[CliveC]

He is probably validating locally.

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[CliveC]

The link to

http://tubularity.com/test.htm

was to prove that you can view a file that does not have a PHP extension.

You can download a file without running it.

Clive

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[ThatRickGuy]

The link to

http://tubularity.com/test.htm

was to prove that you can view a file that does not have a PHP extension.

Holy Cow! And this whole time I thought PHP was the only doc type that was visible!

As Sheco said, you can stick PHP, Assembly, Cobol, Fortran, or baby talk into an HTML page. Doesn't mean it will freaking work. But it'll be there. Seeing as how it doesn't work though, it makes the whole thing rather pointless.

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[sedj]

Well of course you can view a file without a PHP extension - check out my site - its mainly JSP (and certainly not XHTML, I haven't got time for that ****) - and you can also view the files too


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[ChrisHirst]

Clive.

<?php ?>, <? ?> and <script language="php"></script> will all function in the same fashion PROVIDED THE PAGE IS BEING PROCCESSED AS PHP and therefore they do not need to validate at all as they will NEVER appear in the client side source.
Your discussion on the merits of one validating is simply not of any consequence as it should never happen when used correctly.


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[ChrisHirst]

Good heavens You can view files without a php extension? Shock. Hold the front page! (that's front page NOT M$ Front Page)






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[CliveC]

1. To get the error the originator must have been validating locally.

2. <script language="php"> is the same as <? or <?php

3. The reason I showed test.htm was because someone had suggested that you could call a PHP file by any extension as long as you configured the PHP processor.

Have a nice day!

Clive

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[Sheco]

If your server side code is showing up in your browser then something is wrong... it isn't being processed by the server.

Don't worry about it not validating until you fix this underlying problem!

Unless, of course, you are making a web page about how to write server-side code and the "code" in that case is just the text of your examples.

But if that is what you are doing there is no need for the <script> tags because the code is just text anyhow.

 

[MasumX]

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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wow, alot of replies cool umm im using XHTML so i tried to "Include" a .php extension file to call a random.php and that error showed up when i tried to validate it from validator.w3.org and maybe i can use the method CliveC used..with Javascript to call the php file!! eh? oh btw loving this forum

 

[klaforce]

I hope this works out like the validating of dates using regular expressions.


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[MasumX]

CliveC, Thanks..and it worked and No error when i validated cooL!

 

[adam0101]

Maybe I'm missing something here. Why would you validate a page before it is processed by PHP? If the PHP generates output, that output would never get validated, right?

Oh, and..

klaforc, When I was wrong I admitted it. See the difference here?

Actually, you admitted it long long after you were wrong. It was like pulling teeth!

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[MasumX]

damn...the things already works? and what's the arguement is about lost since i waznt paying attention to everything..unless it was to help me that is

 

[MasumX]

ok sorry but i just realized it dnt work like this..

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

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

but doesn't validate without "type" attribute

 

[MasumX]

but this seems to work and validate without error

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

 

[ChrisHirst]

The whole point of the matter is that anything that is between server-side script delimiters <? ?> or <?php ?> for PHP or <% %> for ASP does not need to validate. It should not be even parsed by the validator. ALL validators should treat server side delimiters in the same way they should treat client side <script></script> delimiters and ignore anything inbetween IF you are validating a file rather than the SERVED document. This is for the very basic reason that they should never appear in the served document, the output from the script or the contents of the included file will do but not the delimiters.

However in reality you should not validate any documents that are using SSI or scripted includes without them being served up. This is simply because you are not validating the entire document as delivered to the user agent, only part of it.


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[johnwm]

Ah Chris, but this question is only for people who write PHP stuff to go on servers that can't process PHP.

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