HTML Validation

The HTML Validation class uses Tidy (which requires libtidy from: http://tidy.sourceforge.net) to validate HTML code snippets. The snippet can be passed to the construct, or seperatly through the validate() function (which returns the results). Use setConfig() to set Tidy configuration options (listed at: http://tidy.sourceforge.net/docs/quickref.html).

Example Usage:

<php

// Include this file.
include('html_validation.class.php');

// Store some invalid HTML in $string
$string="<b>TEST<b>";

// Instantiate the class, passing the bad HTML to the construct.
$validation = new htmlValidation($string);

// echo out the status of the class, including the errors stored in $validation->errors
echo $validation->displayStatus();

This will output:

--- DOCUMENT STATUS ---

DTD:XHTML 1.0 Transitional

CONFIG SETTINGS:
input-encoding : UTF8

VALIDATION ERRORS:
line 1 column 259 - Warning: <b> is probably intended as </b>

// We might also use $validation-errors for flow control:
if($validation->errors){
   echo $validation->errors;
}else{
   echo "The snippet is valid";
}

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