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phpvalidationxhtml
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dylanized

Reputation: 3855

can i validate xhtml programmatically from a php script?

I would like to have a PHP function to check if a URL returns valid HTML or NOT, and returns true or false.

Something like:

if (validate_page("/somefile.html")) { echo "This page validated!!"; }

I found TWINE but it doesn't just give me true or false. Also I got an error running it on my system. http://twineproject.sourceforge.net/

I found this offline tool that looked promising. http://htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/offline/

Also I found this thread that talks about a gem, but it sounds problematic. How do I validate XHTML with nokogiri?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1501

Answers (5)

Gipetto
Gipetto

Reputation: 1048

Tidy?

Validate: http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.tidy-diagnose.php
Repair: http://us.php.net/manual/en/tidy.repairstring.php

Upvotes: 2

bcosca
bcosca

Reputation: 17555

libxml_use_internal_errors ( true );
$doc = new DOMDocument;
$doc -> loadHTMLFile ( $file ); // load the file you want validated
var_dump ( libxml_get_errors () );

Upvotes: 0

Arc
Arc

Reputation: 11286

You could also try DOMDocument->validate() if you are using PHP 5 and if the document contains a DTD.

http://www.php.net/manual/en/domdocument.validate.php

Upvotes: 1

oezi
oezi

Reputation: 51797

xhtml hast to be valid xml - if you only want to check that, you could easily use simplexml, but if you also want to check for correct elements/attributes this won't help you (in that case, NullUserExceptions hint to W3C's validator API would be the best solution to choose).

Upvotes: 0

NullUserException
NullUserException

Reputation: 85458

You can use W3C's validator API. There's a PHP library available through PEAR (click here) which uses said API.

You can also install the validator on your local server (instructions here), though you might not have sufficient permissions to do so if you are using shared hosting.

Upvotes: 1

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