W3 Validation Error

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#1

Hi All

I am new to PHP and this forum. I have produced a basic e-commerce prototype using php for an assignment. It all works as expected. I am just doing some finishing touches and checking all pages through W3 validation. I have correct all errors and all bugs expect one and I am a bit lost with it so wondering if anyone can help me spot what I have done wrong.
I have pasted the PHP code and the output’d code below.
The error I get is:

end tag for "table" which is not finished
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#2

The only suggestion I can off is to remove the white space.

Change:

[php] echo “

View”; [/php]

To:

[php] echo “

View”;[/php]

I don’t see anything wrong that will cause that error, obviously you didn’t show the full HTML output just a snippet.

#3

Hi Topcoder

Thank you for the suggestion. Will give that a go, really frustrating as every page passes validation apart from this one, with this table. Grrr lol I will report back :slight_smile:

#4

Why i the world are you echoing HTML?

#5

[php]


<?php
while ($row = mysqli_fetch_object) {
?>







<?php } ?>
<?php echo $row->ProductName; ?> <?php echo $row->ProductDescription; ?> <?php echo $currency . $row->ProductPrice; ?> View
[/php]

you can also short tag … <?= ?> instead of <?php echo "content echo"; ?> inside the HTML tags.

#6

Hi All

Thank you all for your help on this one, and thank you Strider64 for the great example. A much cleaner approach to mine.
I also worked out why my approach was failing W3 Validation, it was because in the structure and doctype I am using it was looking for at least one

tag. As soon as I added this it passed the validation.

But will look at reviewing the code as you have suggested.

Thanks again

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