Xml And Charset

[thejerm]

I wanted to add the character set tag to my site in this form

><?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>

. I was told it goes before the doctype but whenever I place the code there I get this error message

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/xxxxxx/public_html/index.php on line 1

. Is this because I need to add/change a mime type? Yes I know I could use meta tag but someone said this way was better.

[TCH-Tim]

I wanted to add the character set tag to my site in this form

><?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>

.  I was told it goes before the doctype but whenever I place the code there I get this error message

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/xxxxxx/public_html/index.php on line 1

. Is this because I need to add/change a mime type? Yes I know I could use meta tag but someone said this way was better.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

 

try putting it before the PHP start tag, as in:

><?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<DOCTYPE blah blah>

<?php
blah blah
?>

[thejerm]

didnt work.

[borfast]

You have to use PHP to output the <?xml stuff, because since PHP has short_open_tags turned on, when it sees a <? it immediately thinks that whatever is in between <? and ?> is PHP code and tries to interpret it that way.

 

So replace the whole <?xml line with the following:

><?php echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>'; ?>

And it should work without a problem

[thejerm]

So replace the whole <?xml line with the following:

><?php echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>'; ?>

And it should work without a problem

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

 

 

 

Thanks Raul you are the man

Edited March 6, 2005 by thejerm