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Topic: Outputs junk

Hi all,
  I am building a website using php, I split the layout into 3

1. header.php
2. $action.inc
3. footer.php

here $action keep changing and loads the desired content.

The problem:

When the page loads, it shows a gap in between header and content(main.inc or any othr file)

I have checked all the div tags, all are open and closed properly.
few pages are executingit properly, but rest of the pages shows this gap. Wheni looked at the soure(html- view source) I found "?" in that gap. but its not displaying anythingin the browser except a line gap.

could you pls let me know what will be the error?.

Thanks in Adv

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  • Registered: 2004-05-24
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Re: Outputs junk

I always go like this 

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
<html dir="ltr">
<head>
<title></title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<meta name="language" content="en-us" />
<meta name="author" content="" />
<meta name="keywords" content="" />
<meta name="description" content="" />
<style type="text/css">
</style>
</head>
<body>
<?php if(!isset($page)){include "home.php";}else{include "$page.php";}?>
</body>
</html>

Your links must look like

<a href="index.php?page=aboutme">About Me</a>

And the "About Me" page should be aboutme.php
The URL would look like http://./index.php?page=aboutme
if page is not set it automatically included home.php (you can change to wheter you like as long as you change the PHP syntax).

This creates no blank spaces.

  • From: India
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Re: Outputs junk

My code looks like this... Do i need to change the Doctype?

header.php

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>My page Title</title>
<META NAME="Title" CONTENT="" />
<META NAME="Author" CONTENT="General Manager" />
<META NAME="Description" CONTENT="" />
<META NAME="Keywords" CONTENT="" />
<META NAME="Identifier" CONTENT="" />
<META NAME="organization-email" CONTENT="" />
<META NAME="Copyright" CONTENT="" />
<META NAME="coverage" CONTENT="Global" />
<META NAME="Robots" CONTENT="Index, Follow" />
<META NAME="revisit" CONTENT="30 days" />
<META http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />
<link href="sns/style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
<link href="sns/report.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
<script language="JavaScript" src="sns/jscripts.js"></script>
</head>
<body style="background-color:#ffffff; ">
<div class="wrap">
<!--  header_begin -->
   <div id="header">
      Header Here. . . .<br>
     <br style="line-height:56px ">
   </div>
<!--  header_end -->

main.inc

  <div id="content">
    <div style="width:678px; height:50px; margin-left:34px; margin-top:26px;">
    <div style="width:678px; height:50px; float:left;">        
        Home page
        
                asasdlasjdlasjdlas laskdjalsjkdaslkdjaskld
        GOTO <a href="index.php?action=search">Search Page</a>
                    
        </div>
    </div>
  </div>

footer.php

<!--  footer_begin  -->
   <div id="footer" >
   <div style="text-align:center;padding-top:10px " class="policy"><b>Powered by:</b></font><a target="_blank" href="#"><font color="#A8B2AF">xyz.com</font></a></div>
  </div>
<!--  footer_end  -->
</div>
</body>
</html>
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4 Reply by Strofanto (edited by Strofanto 2006-03-29 11:38)

  • Registered: 2004-05-24
  • Posts: 449

Re: Outputs junk

I think the issue is the <br style="line-height:56px "> in your header, it's some space.
No you don't have to change the Doctype, you used HTML 4.01 I used XHTML 1.1, they are simply different.


EDIT: On a second look you mixed up HTML and XHTML, if you want to go for HTML you have to remove the /> from your Meta tags, replacing it with a simple >.
Otherwise if you want to go for XHTML change the doctype, turn the meta tags to lower case (from META to meta) and close the <br> tag (to br />).

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Re: Outputs junk

if the problem is with header, then i should get error in all the pages know. But I am getting this error in few pages only.. and the space in the Header is ok. Coz i removed the image below that. If not i have to upload the image and all...

Regarding Meta Tags, we usually use META in html pages. i think it ll not affect the page / code.

Do you think that, it will have some impact on the code?

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Re: Outputs junk

ameenullah wrote:

if the problem is with header, then i should get error in all the pages know. But I am getting this error in few pages only.. and the space in the Header is ok. Coz i removed the image below that. If not i have to upload the image and all...

Post the code of a page with the problem and one without the problem

ameenullah wrote:

Regarding Meta Tags, we usually use META in html pages. i think it ll not affect the page / code.

Do you think that, it will have some impact on the code?

No it will only make the page not HTML valid.

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Re: Outputs junk

In between the two comment lines, i am getting "?" in the source after execution

Pages without error shows

<!--  header_end -->
<!-- Content_beigns -->

pages with error shows

<!--  header_end -->
?<!-- Content_beigns -->

In header.php / main.inc, there is no such character.

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Re: Outputs junk

I absolutely have no idea why those comments return an error, try removing them, if you need them try <?php //comment ?>

9 Reply by ameenullah (edited by ameenullah 2006-03-29 12:28)

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Re: Outputs junk

Thank you Strofanto, finally its fixed, one of my friend, suggested me to open a new file and paste the code alone removing tabs and (extra)spaces. I did the same. Now its working fine.

Stil i Dont have the clue - why i got that error? but what I think is, there may be some hidden character while creation of file.

thanks alot for your support Strofanto.

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Re: Outputs junk

You're welcome.