xhtml traansitional compliant directory

**inspireme** · 06-14-2006, 11:11 AM

Heres mainly what you need to do ... just a few bits that took a long time to work out where the code was comign from youll probably have to make other changes as well, but this should give you a good start :

add doctype to header.html

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

Close of all tag options with "" (eg. alt=whatever becomes alt="whatever")

CLose image tags (eg. <img="whatever"> becomes <img="whatever" />

global find and replace <br> to <br />

change background= on the blocks to read style="background-image:url(<%$tpl_base%>/images/template_23.gif)"

That should solve most, the validator will alert you to any line numbers you miss. Now heres some php code needs changing :

category.class.php :

Line 411

Code:

        $category .= "<table width=\"$this->cat_table_width\" cellspacing=\"$this->cat_cellspacing\">\n";

Line 421

Code:

          $category .= "<td width=\"$width" . "%\" valign=\"top\">\n";

Line 449

Code:

                            $image = "<img src='$cat_image' border=\"0\" alt=\"folder\" />";

Line 483 and 489 and 497

Code:

                $category .= "<br />";

line 476

Code:

  $category .= "<br /> <br />";

settign.php :

Line 32

Code:

$number_of_links_format = " <font color=\"#000000\"><b>(<%\$number_of_links%>)</b></font>";  // number of links

Now, footer.html and login have javascript thats missing the type= tag :

eg. footer.html change to :

Code:

    <script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" src="<%$tpl_base%>/trackclick.js"></script>

Dody, it would be fairly easy to make your software xhtml compliant / strict ... it would be a good selling point...

**inspireme** · 06-14-2006, 11:20 AM

Can people post further changes if they attempt to do this... you should do some global find and replace on the listing entres to make sure they dont cause problems... do this at your own risk!!!

Admin > database (alter)

im mysql box use this formula to find and replace on tablenames

Code:

update [table_name] set [field_name] = replace([field_name],'[string_to_find]','[string_to_replace]');

idx_link and idx_category should have the following find and replaces done on them :

<br> to <br />
& to &

in new and updated block and random block change the rss image to read : align="middle" not align="absmiddle"

**inspireme** · 06-14-2006, 11:27 AM

You need to remove the IDs as well, they are duplicated so you wont pass validation. in category class change :

line 228

Code:

  $href                = "<a href='{$href}' >";

and possibly :

line 529

Code:

                $category .= "<a href=\"$sub_url\" style=\"$this->subcat_link_style\">$sub_name</a>, ";

I started with 217 errors, and 5 hours later i got the little green light come up on the validator

**gcn** · 06-14-2006, 01:04 PM

just some few things

- <script type="text/javascript" and not <script language="javascript"
- replace target="_blank" by onclick="target='_blank';"
- always alt in tag img src
- no height in tag table
- no confusion and no mix between % and px or pt
(eg: no <td width="100%" height="20" => error )
- replace border=0 by style="border: 0"

**lexpression** · 06-14-2006, 01:36 PM

Thank you so much inspireme. Is there any chance that Dody can make these corrections in the code, so we won't have to keep making the changes everytime there is an update?

**inspireme** · 06-14-2006, 03:08 PM

Originally Posted by lexpression

Thank you so much inspireme. Is there any chance that Dody can make these corrections in the code, so we won't have to keep making the changes everytime there is an update?

Lets hope so! I have a few more things to change, im a little confused where some code is coming from on a few bits but i will get their. I could post the corrected cateogry.class table but any change is going to make it void... so its best to use the above as a guide until dody updates the code... it really isnt anything major to do, infact its 95% done in comparisson to 3.2.

**inspireme** · 06-14-2006, 03:29 PM

ps. you cant have a tag with the same "id" indexU saves the categories in a database table "idx category with path", if on the main page you have a random listing, or 2 new listigns in the same category they have the same ID therefore the page doesnt validate.

Im not hardcore enough to care, but some of you maybe... a quick fix is to remove the category path output on new and updated block and the random block

**inspireme** · 06-14-2006, 03:33 PM

Opps...!

If anyone followed the code, do not delete the line 476, it messes up when you have more than 1 line of cateogrys. instead replace it with

Code:

  $category .= "<br /> <br />";

i edited the original post now

**dody** · 06-14-2006, 07:07 PM

Thanks for doing this so far. I'll make update for next release.

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