Re: [Phpwebsite-developers] Making phpWebSite XHTML Strict

[Michael H. R. <po...@mi...>]

Hello Greg.

I would like to point out, that I think you are touching a very crucial
point when it comes to building the page content, seen from an
architectural point of view.

In an idealistic framework, all of the html code should come from the
template files. That would give the designers and theme developers the
opportunity to change every single html statement, without making
changes in the php files.

When I develop 3rd party modules, I try to get as much as possible of
the html code into the template files. Sometimes I find the need of
constructing some part of the html statements within my php file,
particularly when it comes to the top menu, anchor tags and image tags.

I think a far better solution would be if there was some core
functionality (like the Database.php class) I could call, which could
help me create the html code I need. That would remove the html code
inside my on module (besides the template files of course), and there
would only be one place to look, if for example the structure of the
anchor statement should be changed.

Besides construction simple html tags, the "html helper" could construct
more complex html structures like the top menu, which almost every
module use today. Another candidate could be the action part of a list
with the "show/hide | view | edit | delete" part.

Regards

Michael H. Rasmussen
TechElephant


> Hello all,
> 
> I've been spending the last few weeks working on my theme-making
> skills.   One thing I noticed during this adventure is that it is
> currently not possible to get the 0.10.x core to validate as XHTML
> Strict - only Transitional.  I discovered that tweaking templates only
> solved half the problem.  It took some tweaking of module php files
> before I got my personal site to validate as Strict.
> 
> I've been making notes along the way of what needs to be changed in
> the core.  Its not a complete list by far (as I don't use all the
> modules and I only validated the pages the public can see).  I wasn't
> sure if there was interest by the devs and/or the community to get
> 0.10.x to validate as Strict.  Of course, this assumes there would be
> another 0.10.x release before 1.0.  Any thoughts?
> 
> In addition, are there plans to make Fallout Strict compliant?  I
> think it should be.  The core should not prevent people from making
> their site Strict if they want it to be.
> 
> Regards,
> Greg Meiste
> 
> 
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