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Asked: 2026-05-22T18:30:54+00:00

I’ve got an html5 page with a php form in it and I’m getting

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I’ve got an html5 page with a php form in it and I’m getting a few errors. When initially developing, the form, by itself on a page, validated 100% HTML5 (named index.php). The page I put it into (index.html) also validated 100%. Copying the form’s code into my page has caused a few validation errors.. which doesn’t make sense to me, as they were both 100% accurate.

I’m not sure whether the page including the form should now be index.php or stay as index.html.

Advice?

Below is the HTML and Validation errors as .HTML and .PHP

HTML:

<body>
  <div id="vig"></div>
  <header>
    <h1>LARA</h1>
  </header>  
  <div id="main" class="corners" role="main">
    <div id="jquery_jplayer_1" class="jp-jplayer"></div>
    <div class="jp-audio">
      <div class="jp-type-playlist">
        <div id="jp_interface_1" class="jp-interface">
          <ul class="jp-controls">
            <li><a href="#" class="jp-previous blue" tabindex="1">previous</a></li>
            <li><a href="#" class="blue jp-play" tabindex="1">play</a></li>
            <li><a href="#" class="blue jp-pause" tabindex="1">pause</a></li>
            <li><a href="#" class="blue jp-stop" tabindex="1">stop</a></li>
            <li><a href="#" class="blue jp-next" tabindex="1">next</a></li>
          </ul>
          <div class="jp-progress corners">
            <div class="jp-seek-bar corners blue">
              <div class="jp-play-bar corners"></div>
            </div>
          </div>
          <div class="time">
            <div class="jp-current-time"></div>
            <p id="name"></p>
            <div class="jp-duration"></div>
          </div>
        </div>
      </div>
    </div>
    <div id="mail"> 
      <form id="signup" action="<?=$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>" method="get"> 
        <fieldset>
          <input type="email" name="email" id="email" class="corners" placeholder="Enter your email address" />
          <span id="response">
            <? require_once('php/store-address.php'); if($_GET['submit']){ echo storeAddress(); } ?>
          </span>
          <input type="submit" id="submit" class="corners blue" value="Go" />           
        </fieldset> 
      </form> 
    </div>
  </div>  
  <footer>
  </footer>
</body>

as .HTML these errors show up:

Line 67, Column 73: Bad value <?=$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?> for attribute action on element form: Illegal character in query component.
        <form id="signup" action="<?=$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>" method="get"> 
        Syntax of IRI reference:
        Any URL. For example: /hello, #canvas, or http://example.org/. Characters should be represented in NFC and spaces should be escaped as %20.
 Line 71, Column 7: Saw <?. Probable cause: Attempt to use an XML processing instruction in HTML. (XML processing instructions are not supported in HTML.)
       <? require_once('php/store-address.php'); if($_GET['submit']){ echo storeA…

as .PHP these errors show up:

 Line 74, Column 276: End of file seen and there were open elements.
    …s/c09/h02/mnt/127740/domains/lara.fm/html/index.php</b> on line <b>71</b><br />
✉
 Line 70, Column 23: Unclosed element span.
    <span id="response">
✉
 Line 68, Column 14: Unclosed element fieldset.
    <fieldset>
✉
 Line 67, Column 56: Unclosed element form.
    <form id="signup" action="/index.php" method="get"> 
✉
 Line 66, Column 21: Unclosed element div.
    <div id="mail"> 
✉
 Line 41, Column 47: Unclosed element div.
    <div id="main" class="corners" role="main">
✉
 Line 36, Column 22: Unclosed element div.
    <div id="container">
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  1. Editorial Team

    Your .html file is not being parsed, which is why you get the errors on the .html version. Note, typically PHP is not setup to parse .html-ended files (.php, .php3, .php4, .php5, etc… typically are, though, depending on your php.ini).

    Note

    If you are copying/pasting your source PHP code and not the output of the script (that the browser sees), this is likely your issue (as Jon Cram points out). To do an in-browser validation, checkout:

    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/html-validator/

    This is often much easier than copying/pasting your code into the w3c validator.

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