php generated html cannot see stylesheet

davebartlett

I used php to generate an html file, the header of the doc looks okay but renders as though unable to see the stylesheet in Safari 1.2.3 and Mozilla 1.7 and in Mac IE the php generated html doesn't show at all, which seems odd.

Any ideas?

<?php
echo "<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN\"
\"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd\">
<html lang=\"en\">
<head>
<meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\">
<title>php version</title>
<link rel=\"stylesheet\" type=\"text/css\" href=\"style/mystyle-style.css\">
</head>
<body>
<div id=\"header\">

(there are two other chunks of php generated html after this.)

Megahertza

Sup man, theres no need to echo everything in php when most of it can be done in html.

If u wanted to echo this code out as a resault of over php code u can escape the php

<?php
If ($var == 1) {
?>
// HTML tags //
<?php
} else {
?>
// more HTML tags //
<?php
}
?>

Since there is no var this will output

// more HTML tags //

Shrike

Does the code validate ok against HTML4/Strict?

davebartlett

Thanks for your answers fellas.

I ended up using brute force and ignorance - instead of a linked style sheet I put it all inside style tags in the header, and that worked.

Still can't see why the linked sheet wouldn't work though, the header was a straight cut & paste from a working javascript version.

davebartlett

"he header was a straight cut & paste from a working javascript version."

...which is, of course, why it wouldn't work.

The path was wrong.

On my test machine I had all the php scripts in the root folder, on the server they sat inside a separate directory. The style sheet path was missing "../"

poo.