password script and xhtml validation

LarryKent

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« on: September 04, 2011, 12:55:05 pm »

Putting the php include for password_protect.php in the very first line causes my page not to validate. Anyone have an answer or solution to this?

I'm trying to validate as xhtml transitional. The validator seems unhappy that the php include is the first line of the document rather than a doctype

Thanks.


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zubrag

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Re: password script and xhtml validation

« Reply #1 on: September 04, 2011, 01:23:18 pm »

Validator does not know password, so it can only see/validate login form. So login form has to be fixed to be xhtml compliant. Find code starting with <html> and ending with </html> and replace with following code inside password_protect.php

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
   "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
  <title>Please enter password to access this page</title>
  <meta http-equiv="CACHE-CONTROL" content="NO-CACHE" />
  <meta http-equiv="PRAGMA" content="NO-CACHE" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
  <style type="text/css">
   input { border: 1px solid black; }
  </style>
</head>
<body>
  <div style="width:500px; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto; text-align:center">
  <form method="post" action="#">
   <h3>Please enter password to access this page</h3>
   <font color="red"><?php echo $error_msg; ?></font><br />
<?php if (USE_USERNAME) echo 'Login:<br /><input type="text" name="access_login" /><br />Password:<br />'; ?>
<input type="password" name="access_password" /><p></p><input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit" />
  </form>
  <br />
  <a style="font-size:9px; color: #B0B0B0; font-family: Verdana, Arial;" href="http://www.zubrag.com/scripts/password-protect.php" title="Download Password Protector">Powered by Password Protect</a>
  </div>
</body>
</html>


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LarryKent

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Re: password script and xhtml validation

« Reply #2 on: September 04, 2011, 01:44:56 pm »

Thanks! This improved things. I ran the validator again and got a "Congratulations" because "This document was Tentatively checked as XHTML 1.0 Transitional" with two warnings, as follows:

FIRST WARNING: No Character Encoding Found! Falling back to UTF-8.

None of the standards sources gave any information on the character encoding labeling for this document. Without encoding information it is impossible to reliably validate the document. As a fallback solution, the "UTF-8" encoding was used to read the content and attempt to perform the validation, but this is likely to fail for all non-trivial documents.

SECOND WARNING: No Character encoding declared at document level

No character encoding information was found within the document, either in an HTML meta element or an XML declaration. It is often recommended to declare the character encoding in the document itself, especially if there is a chance that the document will be read from or saved to disk, CD, etc.

[end of warnings]

If that's as close as we can get, I can live with it - the script seems to work. It's a curiosity, though. Thanks again.


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zubrag

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Re: password script and xhtml validation

« Reply #3 on: September 05, 2011, 03:03:53 pm »

I updated the form above a little, shoul now produce only one warning (Using Direct Input mode: UTF-8 character encoding assumed), which i had no chance to fix yet


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