As already mentioned, it's due to the url rewriter. You need to get it to write the session id inside a fieldset, and not directly in the form.
So: add a fieldset around your form's content and then have a look at http://uk.php.net/manual/en/ref.session.php#ini.url-rewriter.tags. As I don't have access to php.ini, and my host doesn't allow changes to PHP via .htaccess, I've resorted to solving the issue on a site I was working on directly in PHP, by calling the following at the start of each page ini_set('url_rewriter.tags',"a=href,area=href,frame=src,fieldset="); Obviously, if you can get it changed in php.ini, that makes it even less of a pain... Patrick ________________________________ Patrick H. Lauke Webmaster / University of Salford http://www.salford.ac.uk > -----Original Message----- > From: Steven Clark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 25 August 2004 09:40 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [WSG] PHP is stopping my page validating as xhtml 1.0 Strict > > > I've got a page with a small logon form, nothing major. It > has a couple of > small hurdles for validating as XHTML 1.0 strict though. > > The first is that XHTML doesn't support the name attribute, > so of course my > php that processes this login feature won't work with id > instead of name. Is > there something in PHP that I don't know about? Well in > JavaScript I'd just > have used the id attribute and then getElementById() in the > script. But does > PHP have this ability? Or am I just in a pickle of having to > put up with it > because its the way it is. What is the alternative to using > name if you want > to use PHP? > > Secondly, the page won't validate as XHTML 1.0 strict because > of something > in the said php code. Mmmm. > > http://blog.lindenlangdon.com/prototype/ > > The php code is > $username = strip_tags(trim($_POST['username'])); > $password = strip_tags(trim($_POST['password'])); > > > if (isset($logon)) // if login is pressed > { > // open the database > and check if the user exists > > include("level/include/dbfuncs.inc"); > $link = connectToDatabase(); > if(!link) > { > print > "<p>database connection error</p>"; > > mysql_close($link); > exit(); > } > > // run a query to get > all of the user and password combinations > $query = "select * > from member where username = \"$username\" && > password = \"$password\""; > $result = mysql_query($query); > > > // if one set matches > if (mysql_num_rows($result)== 1) > { > > header("location: level/form/submission.php"); // go to > submission.php > } > else > { > header("location: index.php"); // go to > index.php again > } > } > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > Any advice on this one would be greatly appreciated thanx. Its got me > stumped. > > Steven Clark > www.nortypig.com > www.blog.nortypig.com > > _________________________________________________________________ > All only $4! Get the latest mobile tones, images and logos: > http://fun.mobiledownloads.com.au/191191/index.wl > > ****************************************************** > The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ > > Proud presenters of Web Essentials 04 http://we04.com/ > Web standards, accessibility, inspiration, knowledge > To be held in Sydney, September 30 and October 1, 2004 > > See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > for some hints on posting to the list & getting help > ****************************************************** > > ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ Proud presenters of Web Essentials 04 http://we04.com/ Web standards, accessibility, inspiration, knowledge To be held in Sydney, September 30 and October 1, 2004 See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
