Re[2]: [PHP] XHTML Validator Problem[Scanned]

Hi, Tuesday, January 7, 2003, 10:23:54 PM, you wrote: ME> Tom, ME> Thanks for that. ME> I don't have access to the server on which the site is being run but I'll suggest ME> the change to the hosting company. ME> Michael Egan ME> -----Original Message----- ME> From: Tom Rogers [mailto:trogers@kwikin.com] ME> Sent: 07 January 2003 10:57 ME> To: Michael Egan ME> Cc: PHP General (E-mail) ME> Subject: Re: [PHP] XHTML Validator Problem[Scanned] ME> Hi, ME> Tuesday, January 7, 2003, 6:58:08 PM, you wrote: ME>> I've finally got round to making some attempt to validating the pages of a site ME>> I've done with PHP using the W3C XHTML Validator. However, it's throwing out errors ME>> wherever I use session control ME>> on pages. ME>> The server generates PHP Session ID variables which are added to links to other pages but ME>> my understanding is that these are rejected on the basis that the '&' and ME>> '=' characters are invalid (I ME>> might be wrong here). ME>> Examples of the error messages generated by the validator are given below: ME>> Line 154, column 102: cannot generate system identifier for general entity ME>> "PHPSESSID" ME>> ...u' ME>> href='competitions.php?option=add&PHPSESSID=888a059dbc17855c09885c3ea978df ME>> ^ ME>> Line 154, column 102: general entity "PHPSESSID" not defined and no default ME>> entity (explain... ME>> <http://validator.w3.org/docs/errors.html>). ME>> ...u' ME>> href='competitions.php?option=add&PHPSESSID=888a059dbc17855c09885c3ea978df ME>> ^ ME>> These are the only error messages left - having dealt with the dozens of others left in ME>> through my own sloppy coding :-( ME>> I'm not sure how to tackle this given that these elements of the page are generated ME>> automatically. ME>> Is there a way round this or are there any sources of information relating to this area? ME>> Thanks in advance, ME>> Michael Egan ME>> -- ME>> PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) ME>> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php ME> In your php.ini set arg_separator.output to &amp; ME> That should fix it. You can put this at the top of your scripts: ini_set('arg_separator.output','&amp;'); -- regards, Tom