Hi,

Tuesday, January 7, 2003, 6:58:08 PM, you wrote:
ME> I've finally got round to making some attempt to validating the pages of a site 
I've done with PHP using the W3C XHTML Validator.  However, it's throwing out errors 
wherever I use session control
ME> on pages.

ME> The server generates PHP Session ID variables which are added to links to other 
pages but my understanding is that these are rejected on the basis that the '&' and 
'=' characters are invalid (I
ME> might be wrong here).

ME> Examples of the error messages generated by the validator are given below:

ME> Line 154, column 102: cannot generate system identifier for general entity 
"PHPSESSID" 
ME>   ...u' href='competitions.php?option=add&PHPSESSID=888a059dbc17855c09885c3ea978df
ME>                                           ^
ME> Line 154, column 102: general entity "PHPSESSID" not defined and no default entity 
(explain... <http://validator.w3.org/docs/errors.html>). 
ME>   ...u' href='competitions.php?option=add&PHPSESSID=888a059dbc17855c09885c3ea978df
ME>                                           ^

ME> These are the only error messages left - having dealt with the dozens of others 
left in through my own sloppy coding :-(

ME> I'm not sure how to tackle this given that these elements of the page are 
generated automatically.

ME> Is there a way round this or are there any sources of information relating to this 
area?

ME> Thanks in advance,

ME> Michael Egan

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In your php.ini set arg_separator.output to &amp;
That should fix it.

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regards,
Tom


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