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tcloud
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WeBuilder breaking PHP code

Post by tcloud »

I have a large php web page (330 K) that I've been using for years (and update with new project participants periodically).

I'm test driving WeBuilder (my first use of it) and really like what I see, but it broke part of my PHP code and I can't figure out why. (This is after I did an html tidy.) (I wanted to see how it would handle a file this large.)

It also highlights the closing </body></html> tags in red even though selecting either of them also selects the opening <html><body> tags ?? (To be fair, it found a couple of tags I had not closed (a table and span at the beginning I believe) and maybe that's what broke the code?)

The html portion of the code can be seen here:
http://mykindred.com/cloud/dna/results/pedchart.php ... and I will be happy to zip a copy of the source file if anyone wants to look at it.

The original php is above the <body> tag. There is no other php code on the page -- here it is:

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<?
$doctitle = "Cloud DNA Project pedigree chart";
$historypath = "http://mykindred.com/cloud/dna/results/" ;
$thisfile = "pedchart.php";
$tngrootpath = '../../TX/' ;
include( $tngrootpath.'begin.php');
if( !$cms[support] )
	$cms[tngpath] = $tngrootpath ;
include($cms[tngpath] ."genlib.php");
include($cms[tngpath] ."getlang.php");
include($cms[tngpath] ."log.php");
//include($cms[tngpath] ."$mylanguage/text.php");
//
$thisfile = $historypath.$thisfile;
writelog("<a href=\"$thisfile\">$doctitle</a>");
?>
<!DOCTYPE html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en">
<html>
<head>
<link href="ped.css" rel="stylesheet">
<meta name="author" content="Tom Cloud">
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico">
<?php
echo "<title>$doctitle</title>\n";
echo "<meta name=\"Description\" content=\"$doctitle\">\n";
?>
</head>
WeBuilder creates CSS code for all of my <div> positioning elements -- and I like that -- and it's a large number of styles so I won't include them here. Here is what WeBuilder creates for me after I did an html tidy (note that my meta title tag is empty and the meta description tag has disappeared):

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<?
$doctitle = "Cloud DNA Project pedigree chart";
$historypath = "http://mykindred.com/cloud/dna/results/";
$thisfile = "pedchart.php";
$tngrootpath = '../../TX/';
include ($tngrootpath . 'begin.php');
if (!$cms[support])
  $cms[tngpath] = $tngrootpath;
include ($cms[tngpath] . "genlib.php");
include ($cms[tngpath] . "getlang.php");
include ($cms[tngpath] . "log.php");
//include($cms[tngpath] ."$mylanguage/text.php");
//
$thisfile = $historypath . $thisfile;
writelog("<a href=\"$thisfile\">
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">

<html>
<head>
  <link href="ped.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
  <meta name="author" content="Tom Cloud">
  <link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico">

  <title></title>
  <style type="text/css">
div.c1216 {text-align: center}
... styles omitted
... followed by the style block

and then this strange php code:

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... (style statements)
  </style>
</head>

<body>
  $doctitle"); ?> <?php
  echo "<title>$doctitle</title>\n";
  echo "<meta name=\"Description\" content=\"$doctitle\">\n";
  ?>

  <div class="c1216">
I can accept it's something I'm doing wrong (??) ... but what?

thanks
Tom
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MikeyB
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Re: WeBuilder breaking PHP code

Post by MikeyB »

Hi,

HTML Tidy is not written by Blumentals, it's a third-party program that you can access from within WeBuilder Documentation & support can be found at http://tidy.sourceforge.net/
There are a lot of options you can change within HTML Tidy, Tools -> HTML Tidy -> Configure Tidy but again these are not WeBuilder options but direct options for the HTML Tidy tool.
It's the HTML Tidy tool that craetes the CSS styles & reformats your HTML code.
tcloud wrote:It also highlights the closing </body></html> tags in red
If I view the source of your page http://mykindred.com/cloud/dna/results/pedchart.php the </body> or </html> tags are not in red.
On line 10 I do get <div> <table> <tr> and <td> tags highlighed in red.

Maybe this is where HTML Tidy tried to "fix" your HTML?

The HTML Validator at http://validator.w3.org/ also says that your HTML is invalid http://goo.gl/npAu9 I was suprised it found so many erros, but then a lot of them are it saying your should use & instead of &
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tcloud
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Joined: Sun Nov 07, 2010 3:05 pm

Re: WeBuilder breaking PHP code

Post by tcloud »

Thanks -- html tidy also confuses the contents of the php code block as the html head element in my sample code. Once the missing html tags are corrected, it works okay, but it looks like an error to me in that it should ignore everything inside any php code block.

... thanks again for the insight into the problem. I am grateful to have WeBuilder highlight the problems. FrontPage didn't do that and DreamWeaver just inserted the corrections where it thought they ought to go.
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