weird problem

[orange08]

last time, i did post a topic concerning why my page sometime will load as blank page when using IE. someone has told me that it might be my hosting server problem, too slow...

 

but, now after testing with 'echo' i found when the page reach this line, then it can't be continue...

<meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="content-type"><title>My Site</title>

 

so, i thought is this line can't work properly in IE, but some other pages that got this similar line just work normally...so, i'm really don't know what's the problem...

 

can experienced experts here tell me what's going on?

[Bricktop]

Hi orange08,

 

Have you tried running your page/site through the w3 validator?

 

Run your page/site through this and fix any reported errors and then try again.

 

Hope this helps.

[orange08]

Hi orange08,

 

Have you tried running your page/site through the w3 validator?

 

Run your page/site through this and fix any reported errors and then try again.

 

Hope this helps.

 

i get this:

 

Sorry! This document can not be checked.

 

why?  :'(

[Bricktop]

Does it give any more information?  Something like:

 

"A fatal error occurred when attempting to transcode the character encoding of

the document."

[Jahren]

have you tried by direct input?

http://validator.w3.org/#validate_by_input

[elabuwa]

this may be a dumb suggestion and you may have already done these. but thought i mite just ask.

 

1. U sure php server is runnin?

2. is it a file .php extension or .html extension?

 

may be some one mite b able to help a bit more if you can post the problematic part of the code???

 

best of luck

[orange08]

Does it give any more information?  Something like:

 

"A fatal error occurred when attempting to transcode the character encoding of

the document."

 

i get this:

Sorry, I am unable to validate this document because on line 111  it contained one or more bytes that I cannot interpret as utf-8  (in other words, the bytes found are not valid values in the specified Character Encoding). Please check both the content of the file and the character encoding indication.

 

The error was: utf8 "\xE7" does not map to Unicode

 

but, line 111 of my index.php is

</table>

[Bricktop]

Hi orange08,

 

Are you able to post more code?

 

If you view your source code do you see any of these: �?  Or any other other strange looking characters?

[elabuwa]

wt bout line 110 ?

sometimes this stupid things refer to the line next to the problematic line. lol

[orange08]

Hi orange08,

 

Are you able to post more code?

 

If you view your source code do you see any of these: �?  Or any other other strange looking characters?

 

code of my index.php?

 

 

[Bricktop]

If that's the page you're having problems with then yes, post that code.

[orange08]

If that's the page you're having problems with then yes, post that code.

 

my index.php contains chinese character...

after i remove those chinese character, then can be validated...

 

for the page that i mention it'll loaded as blank page...need i paste the code here?

[Jahren]

have you tried direct input as I mentioned earlier?

[Adam]

Save the Chinese character as a HTML entity, you can use a tool like this to find the correct value:

 

http://web.forret.com/tools/html.asp

[orange08]

have you tried direct input as I mentioned earlier?

 

actually, the page that will load as blank page not my index.php, it's other pages...they are load normally when run with mozilla, but when run with IE, SOMETIME(really can't understand why sometime) will load as blank page.

 

just now you all suggest me to validate with w3 validator, so i direct enter my site URL to validate, but then my site can't be validated as mentioned above. after i remove those chinese character in my index.php, then it can be validated now...

 

i tried validate direct input of the page that will sometime load as blank...and i get 11 errors and 2 warnings...

[Jahren]

Direct input means you copy your page's code into the validator, not only the url.

[Bricktop]

Hi orange08,

 

I think I may have confused things when I said run your page/site through the validator.  When I said site I meant every page, page by page.

 

The W3C validator cannot validate an entire site by URL, just each page as you enter it into the validate box.

 

Enter the URI of the problematic page(s) into the validator box and fix any reported errors, then try again with loading the page in IE and see what results you get.

 

I hope this helps.

[orange08]

Direct input means you copy your page's code into the validator, not only the url.

 

yup, i did copy and paste the page's code for the direct input validation...

 

but, the 11 errors i get are almost the same like:

 

#  Line 14, Column 40: character "0" not allowed in prolog

 

    if(mysql_num_rows($select_profile)>0){

 

 

# Error Line 19, Column 15: character "$" not allowed in prolog

 

    $_SESSION['edit_dob'] = $row["sbm_dob"];

 

which i can't understand...

[Jahren]

oh, this validator is for html only!

open your browser, get to your page, right-click anywhere and click source code.

copy THAT code and paste it into the validator

[orange08]

oh, this validator is for html only!

open your browser, get to your page, right-click anywhere and click source code.

copy THAT code and paste it into the validator

 

yup, i did try it already. but, as a newbie, i don't know how to debug it...

 

e.g.

Line 3, Column 6: document type does not allow element "HTML" here

 

<html>

 

The element named above was found in a context where it is not allowed. This could mean that you have incorrectly nested elements -- such as a "style" element in the "body" section instead of inside "head" -- or two elements that overlap (which is not allowed).

 

One common cause for this error is the use of XHTML syntax in HTML documents. Due to HTML's rules of implicitly closed elements, this error can create cascading effects. For instance, using XHTML's "self-closing" tags for "meta" and "link" in the "head" section of a HTML document may cause the parser to infer the end of the "head" section and the beginning of the "body" section (where "link" and "meta" are not allowed; hence the reported error).

 

 

this is my code from my php file

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="content-type"><title>My Site</title>
<html>
<head>
<?php
echo "test page!";
?>
</head>

[Adam]

<meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="content-type"><title>My Site</title>

 

These must be placed within the <head> tag.

 

"test page!" should be echo'd into the <body>!

[orange08]

<meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="content-type"><title>My Site</title>

 

These must be placed within the <head> tag.

 

"test page!" should be echo'd into the <body>!

 

like this?

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="content-type"><title>My Site</title>
</head>

[Adam]

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="content-type">
<title>My Site</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php
echo "test page!";
?>
</body>
</html>

[orange08]

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="content-type">
<title>My Site</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php
echo "test page!";
?>
</body>
</html>

 

this didn't solve my blank page problem. as i have mentioned in my 1st post, i have detected that sometime when reach the line

<meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="content-type">

 

then, the whole code just can't continue...

 

help, please!

[Adam]

Works for me. Do you have a specific URL to test this on?