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PHP in XHTML

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Anyone know if there is a way to display a php page inside an xhtml page?
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Huh? Do you want to include the PHP page's source in the file, or do you want it to be processed? Either way, your \"XHTML Document\" will have to be a PHP page that outputs XHTML (well, you could use an IFRAME or LAYER to include the PHP page's contents).
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xhtml is a standard for formatting the content of a data stream sent by a web server.

In short, you can keep the extension as php. PHP doesn't really give a damn if its XHTML, HTML 4.0 or PNG.
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Post by Capm »

IFRAME worked. never used that before... this is the first xhtml i've worked with.
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Post by DCrazy »

The question is why isn't your PHP file outputting the XHTML instead? Less convoluted than using an IFRAME.
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Well, because its the portal for a forum software - the original php is outputting xhtml - but that side of it is complex as hell and I don't want to touch it, where the xhtml templates are easy to access and edit and I can understand essentially what it is doing.

The Iframe works nicely, don't know why you don't care for it. (www.midnightsquadron.com is what I'm fiddling with)
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I don't like IFRAMEs because they were originally an IE-specific addition and therefore there's nothing binding Firefox, Opera, et al to even implement it (in fact, Netscape/Mozilla has LAYER for the same purpose). Luckily, since it's been around since around the days of HTML 3.0, most browsers do implement it.
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