PHP Include

gocondo11 · #1 (**permalink**) 08-31-10, 01:29 PM

I wrote my website in PHP with Eclipse. My main page index.php uses the INCLUDE statement in order to display the sidebar and other part of the page, because these parts are also used by other pages.

My problem is that if I add the "<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC..." to each include file, I receive error when validating my index.php because it finds several "<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC..." inside the page.

But if I remove this "<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC..." line from all include files, then Eclipse cannot validate my files as HTML.

Any idea how to solve this problem? You can check my website below.

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UnrealEd · #2 (**permalink**) 09-01-10, 11:22 AM

Are you sure Eclipse doesn't validate html when no doctype is included? I use the same principle (header, footer and content that is included), and I use Eclipse as well, but my html is still validated.

What plugin are you using for PHP in Eclipse?

gocondo11 · #3 (**permalink**) 09-02-10, 10:38 AM

I downloaded the standard Eclipse package for PHP...no idea which plug-in I'm using.

I use XHTML. You are right, Eclipse will validate it as html, but again mine is XHTML. For example break in html is while in XHTML is . So when I use in my XHTML, I do not receive any error from Ecilpse.

UnrealEd · #4 (**permalink**) 09-02-10, 08:26 PM

I'm using PDT (PHP Development Tools on Eclipse Galileo), I have the WTP (Web Tools Platform) feature installed as well for debugging xml, xsl, javascript and html.

I tried what you pointed out as an error, and I have exactly the same problem. The only advantage (but maybe you have this as well) I have is that my editor automatically closes my tags in the XHTML way. So even when I type   it will write  , so there's no problem with the validation.

If you really want a fix for this, I'd try googling first, and if you can't find anything, maybe you could suggest this as a new feature for a future release of the package