Re: PHP Validations NEEDED

On 23 Jul 2011, at 00:37, zHosting Solutions wrote:
> I need to validate some PHP code and I would like to suggestion that you would please add the ability to validate PHP files. Thanks.


The PHP interpreter will "validate" PHP files. If it errors, then there is a problem.

It would not be feasible for a markup validator to take PHP source code as input — it would have to test every possibly permutation of input (some of which might require access to databases or other web services), which simply isn't possible (since resources are not infinite).

It is up to you to construct a robust set of test data, generate HTML documents from it, and validate the resulting HTML.

The validator has an API[1], so you can do this automatically as part of the normal test suite for your application. I recommend installing[2] a local copy of the validator if you plan to do this, as it will be faster and reduce the load on the public service.

[1] http://validator.w3.org/docs/api.html
[2] http://validator.w3.org/docs/install.html

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David Dorward
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