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Automatically validating each page as it loads

My whole site is PHP. That means that there are various includes which
make up each page so that I can have standard headers/footers/menu, etc
If the content of one of these changes, it might break one, some or
all pages.

I am fairly anal about validation and use W3C to validate my most
important pages regularly.

However, I am wondering if it is worth the overhead to run the valuator
automatically on each page and if there are any errors, to send me a
mail.

What do you think? Is it worth the performance hit?

Sep 29 '06 #1
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"Baron Samedi" <Pa************@gmail.comwrote in message
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My whole site is PHP. That means that there are various includes which
make up each page so that I can have standard headers/footers/menu, etc
If the content of one of these changes, it might break one, some or
all pages.

I am fairly anal about validation and use W3C to validate my most
important pages regularly.

However, I am wondering if it is worth the overhead to run the valuator
automatically on each page and if there are any errors, to send me a
mail.

What do you think? Is it worth the performance hit?

There's no point killing w3c like that. They propably will notice your
slaying their server and will block your IP. Look, the world will not end if
the page doesn't validate. Sure it is possible to validate it on each run
but for fucks sake, it's not _that_ important and most of all it will damage
a very useful service such as the w3c validator by unnecessarily loading the
server all the time.

You _are_ being fairly anal about it and that's not good. Validation is not
the ultimate answer. even if your page would validate, it doesn't
necessarily mean the page is errorless, or that it looks okay. The code
might be broken in a way that in fact does validate, but still look like
hell in a browser. You'll end up in a false sense of security like that.

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Sep 29 '06 #2
on 28 Sep 2006 19:42:21 -0700, Baron Samedi wrote:
My whole site is PHP. That means that there are various includes which
make up each page so that I can have standard headers/footers/menu, etc
If the content of one of these changes, it might break one, some or
all pages.
firefox + html tidy validator extension, all done clientside, no server
overhead

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