xml/xhtml web validator incorrectly parses php page

[golbasche]

My xhtml 1.1 page I made passes validation by direct input on the validator page.  However, when I try to validate it by URL it fails.  The problem is that the validator parses some php inside an else/if statement.  It parses both the code inside the “if” and the code inside the “else”.  Since, on my page, PHP will give an error if the else statement is run with an element in the POST array, my server outputs the following:

 

<b>Fatal error</b>: Call to a member function updateParams() on a non-object in <b>D:\Web\WebServer\Apache2\htdocs\site3\process_search2.php</b> on line <b>35</b><br />.

 

 

Of course, this is not valid xhtml.  But I was hoping the xml parser wouldn’t parse this.  Is there a way to fix this ?

 

 

If you could help, that would be very very appreciated.

 

the page - (p.s. my ISP is a little iffy)

http://golbasche.dnsdojo.com/site3/process_search2.php

 

 

[golbasche]

Ooops my problem won't be shown from the link above- you'd have to go to

 

http://golbasche.dnsdojo.com/site3/search.php,

 

press the submit button for the form

 

and then try to validate to recreate my problem

[ToonMariner]

looks like you have php short tags on in your ph.ini file...

[golbasche]

when you mentioned short tags, i got excited and figured you must be right

 

I checked, they are turned off in the php.ini file

 

So I'm still lost, but thanks for the tip