Xhtml Strict Links Tip A problem might accure

[matak 2]

If you try to put a link that has an & in your xHTML strict page, you need to change & to & in order for the page to be xHTML Strict..

 

eg..

 

BAD LINK:

http://jasamza.korisnik.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=7&sid=6c2e9120dcff6e0b83698c4aa7be929a

GOOD LINK:

http://jasamza.korisnik.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=7&sid=6c2e9120dcff6e0b83698c4aa7be929a

copy pasted &
Edited June 2, 2007 by matak (see edit history)

[nol 0]

I'm sorry I must be missing something, I don't see any difference between the two? it may be because of the browsers but idk.

[master_bacarra 0]

um... hey matak, i don't see any difference in the two sample links. and by & you mean the html code for ampersand. am i correct?testing.... \&testing again.... &

Edited June 2, 2007 by master_bacarra (see edit history)

[matak 2]

Yes i edited the post, just replace the & with '&a m p;' bolded, without spaces..

Edited June 2, 2007 by matak (see edit history)

[Saint_Michael 3]

But there is a problem to this though, although I think some php scripts fixed this, anyways, if your using php scripts that generate links and use them on your xhtml 1.0 strict page your going to come up with an error with the use of & and not coding it as such. also all xhtml validates that as an error if you use & instead of it's code when producing links, again if you code your php script properly then you won't have to worry about that error showing up.

[matak 2]

@SM, you might provide explanation to how to avoid this error with PHP. urlencode() didn't work right for me. i read on w3 standards but it seems like you have to modify php.ini in order to avoid errors with these kind of links.maybe just using preg_replace on your link generator script would be a good solution...