HTML Validation for PHP Web Applications
Chee Sheen Chan, Jer Lang Hong · International Conference on Intelligent Information Processing · 2014
A wide range of websites in World Wide Web are deemed invalid as they do not adhere to the HTML standards defined under W3C. Websites which are not well-formed may cause performance degradation for some applications and poses compatibility issues with some browsers. Furthermore, it is harder to render a malformed webpage using state of the art web browsers. To validate a HTML page, a wide range of HTML document validation tools have been developed to validate HTML pages but these tools is not effective in a realm of dynamic web applications such as PHP due to its diversified and complex nature. These tools typically analyze PHP in a static manner which failed to provide meaningful accurate validation on real world applications. In this paper, we present a novel tool for validating dynamic PHP web application in a robust manner which takes into consideration the syntax as well as operation of PHP application.