PHP and XML version

plowter

Hi,

have just posted my first live script, it's a contact us form and it works!

The site was put together using Dreamweaver templates and DW adds two lines giving <?XML version=... and <!DOCTYPE= ...

The script displays a blank page if the <?XML version=... is included, but displays and executes properly if that line is taken out.

Can anyone help me understand what the lines mean to PHP and what they should be changed to to make the script work.

PHP version 4.3.5

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

Thanx

dalecosp

Check whether short_open_tag is ON or OFF in your php.ini.

If it is ON, most likely it is confusing the PHP parser and creating a parse error; if your system is not configured to show errors you would receive a blank page.

Further investigation of your server's error logs might also confirm this prognosis....