| Re: syntax error or notepad++ error? [message #182823 is a reply to message #182818] |
Mon, 16 September 2013 17:14   |
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richard
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On Mon, 16 Sep 2013 11:12:22 -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
> On 9/16/2013 9:20 AM, richard wrote:
>> All is well with matching divisions in notepad++ until I enter this code:
>>
>> echo "<div class='bcol2'>";
>> echo "* ".$number." *<br />";
>> echo '<a
>> href="http://mroldies.net/index2.php?year='.$year.'&nid='.$number.'">';
>> echo $vid[0];
>> echo "</a>";
>> echo "<br />";
>> echo $vid[1];
>> echo "<br />";
>> echo $vid[3];
>> echo" </div>\n";
>>
>> $number++;
>>
>> Notepad++ matches the opening division with the very last closing division
>> tag.
>> Not the closing tag it is supposed to pair with.
>> Without this code, the pairs match.
>>
>> So where's the syntax issue at?
>>
>> I made sure all tags matched properly before including the code.
>>
>
> There's a limit as to how much editors can interpret the code. For
> instance, they can't properly parse something like:
>
> <?php if ($i == 3)
> echo "<div class='foo'\n";
> ?>
>
> because $i is only meaningful during the execution of the page.
>
> They also don't handle things like:
>
> echo "<";
> echo "div ";
> echo "class='foo'";
> echo ">\n";
>
> Even though this generates perfectly valid HTML (I know you wouldn't
> write it like this, but it's an example).
>
Actually, notepad++ does accept all you listed except the < and > signs.
> As a result, when you mix things like regular html and html generated by
> php (or any other language), editors are bound to get confused at some
> point in time. It's just a limit of what editors can do.
>
> The best way is to run the generated page through the HTML validator, as
> Denis suggested.
I did and it did not find anyhting out of whack.
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