HTML in wrong place

Etherwood · December 7, 2009

At the very bottom of my php script you'll see a html link just before the </html>: <a href="main.php">Return To Main</a>. For some reason this is coming up on the page at the top of the page above the php generated table

How wierd?

<?php
session_start();
include("config.php");
include("inc.php");
?>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<title>Search Employee</title>
</head>

<div id="main">
<a name="TemplateInfo"></a>
<h1>Search Employee</h1>

<?php
if (isset($_POST['submit'])) {
// Form Is Submitted

  // Validate Search Query
    if ($_POST['searchquery'] != "") {   
      $searchquery = filter_var($_POST['searchquery'], FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING);   
      if ($searchquery == "") {   
        $errors .= 'Please enter a valid search query.<br/><br/>';   
      }   
    } else {   
      $errors .= 'Please enter a search query.<br/>';   
    }

  // Validate Search Type
    if ($_POST['searchtype'] != "") {   
      $searchtype = filter_var($_POST['searchtype'], FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING);   
      if ($searchtype == "") {   
        $errors .= 'Please enter a valid search type.<br/><br/>';   
      }   
    } else {   
      $errors .= 'Please enter a search type.<br/>';   
    }

echo $searchtype;
echo $searchquery;			

	// Check For Errors
		if (!$errors) {
$results = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM staffdb WHERE $searchtype LIKE '$searchquery'");

$numrows = mysql_num_rows($results);
	if ($numrows == 0)
	  {
	echo "<p>Sorry, your search returned no results</p>";
	  } else {

	echo'<table><TR>
	<TD>Staff ID</TD>
	<TD>Forname</TD>
	<TD>Surname</TD>
	<TD>Department</TD>
	<TD>Vehicle Reg</TD>
	<TD>Locker ID</TD>
	<TD>Locker Key</TD>
	</TR>';

		while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($results)) {
		echo "<TR>
		<TD><a href=\"viewemployee.php?id={$row['staffid']}\">{$row['staffid']}</a></TD>
		<TD>{$row['fname']}</TD>
		<TD>{$row['sname']}</TD>
		<TD>{$row['dept']}</TD>
		<TD>{$row['vehiclereg']}</TD>
		<TD>{$row['lockerid']}</TD>
		<TD>{$row['lockerkey']}</TD>
		</TR>";
		}
	}

} else {
echo '<div style="color: red">' . $errors . '<br/></div>';
}

} else {
// No Form Is Submitted
?>

<form name="searchemployee" action="searchemployee.php" method="post">

<select name="searchtype">
<option value="fname">Forename</option>
<option value="sname">Surname</option>
<option value="dept">Department</option>
<option value="vehiclereg">Vehicle Reg</option>
<option value="lockerid">Locker ID</option>
<option value="lockerkey">Locker Key</option>
</select>

<br/>
Search Query*<br /><input type="text" name="searchquery" size="35" /><br />
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Search Employee" />
</form>

<?php
}
?>

</div>

<a href="main.php">Return To Main</a>

</body>
</html>

The HTML output...

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<title>Search Employee</title>
</head>

<div id="main">
<a name="TemplateInfo"></a>
<h1>Search Employee</h1>

fnametest<table><TR>
	<TD>Staff ID</TD>
	<TD>Forname</TD>
	<TD>Surname</TD>
	<TD>Department</TD>
	<TD>Vehicle Reg</TD>
	<TD>Locker ID</TD>
	<TD>Locker Key</TD>
	</TR><TR>
		<TD><a href="viewemployee.php?id=0">0</a></TD>
		<TD>test</TD>
		<TD>test</TD>
		<TD></TD>
		<TD>dfgdf</TD>
		<TD>2345234</TD>
		<TD>345</TD>
		</TR><TR>
		<TD><a href="viewemployee.php?id=0">0</a></TD>
		<TD>test</TD>
		<TD>test</TD>
		<TD></TD>
		<TD>test</TD>
		<TD>987</TD>
		<TD>9879</TD>
		</TR>
</div>

<a href="main.php">Return To Main</a>

</body>
</html>

Etherwood · December 7, 2009

Take a look at this.

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mikesta707 · December 7, 2009

can you post the css for the "main" div tag

gaza165 · December 7, 2009

it appears you havent closed your <table> with </table> i am basing this on the screenshot so i may be wrong!!

Etherwood · December 7, 2009

Would are correct, didn't notice that

PFMaBiSmAd · December 7, 2009

The missing </table> tag is what is causing your most immediate problem. But if you are trying for a XHTML strict doctype, you need to work on the missing <body> tag, the UPPER-CASE tags, and everything else in the HTML output that is resulting in 28 Errors and 2 warning(s) at the w3.org validator.

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