[RESOLVED] HTML Validates/Same page as PHP fails

Magical_Wonders

Hello Folks,

I have no idea what is going on with this problem. I've created a template page using html which passes validation and can be seen at this url: http://www.magicalwonders.com/Test/Index.html

The same page at the following Url written with PHP and producing identical code fails to validate.
http://www.magicalwonders.com/test2php/indexMW.php

The php version of the page has also altered slightly in that a small gap between the top of page and banner has appeared.

The first error states

..."Line 11 column 1961: document type does not allow element "META" here.
...atford wedding magic" name="keywords">

Yet this is the same code as shown in the html version which passes.

I haven't a clue what is going on here.

Can anyone advise as to what has gone wrong?

Thanks,

Myles

NogDog

The problem is the <br> tag you have between two of the <meta> tags. If you remove it, everything is fine then. (The other problem is that the validator gives you a bunch of confusing error messages instead of telling you that the <br> tag does not belong in the head section of your document. 🙂 )

Magical_Wonders

Ah, thanks for that NogDog. I'd never have guessed it was the <br> tag that was messing things up.

It all validates nicely now, although the output for the meta tags run together.

Is there anyway I can separate the description and keywords in the output?

I'm using the following code for meta tags.

<?php 
if ($page==1) 
{ 
   echo '<meta content="Great magic tricks, mentalism, comedy, card tricks etc, and magical advice supplied by Magical Wonders since 1985. Routines, articles, free magic downloads and Terry Seabrooke too. Highly recommended." name="description">'; 
   echo '<meta content="magical wonders advanced magic trick amazing magic trick basic magic trick beginner magic trick best magic trick birthday magician buy magic trick cabaret magic card magic playing trick card magician " name="keywords">';  

} 

elseif ($page==2)

{ 
   echo '<META CONTENT="A different description" NAME="description">'; 
   echo '<META CONTENT="lots, of, other, words, " NAME="keywords">';

As I can no longer use <br>, I've tried using \n"; but I don't seem to be able to get it to work.

Not sure where I'm going wrong? I suppose I could use two different include files. One for description and one for keywords, but there must be a more elegant solution!

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Myles

NogDog

"\n" only works within a double-quoted string to specify a newline. Within a single-quoted string literal it is just a "\" followed by an "n". You could just append it to the end of your string, in order to minimize the amount of editing:

echo '<meta name="keywords" content="blah,blah,blah">' . "\n";

Magical_Wonders

Thanks for the help. All sorted.

Much appreciated.

Myles