Validating link to Street Map

cyberseed · #1 (**permalink**) Aug 21st, 2006, 09:46

Hi

Have a link to a map generated by www.streetmap.co.uk on a site. It works fine but the link does not validate.

<body>
<a href="http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap...181595&A=Y&Z=1" target="_blank">Click
for map</a>
</body>

Have tried multimap and get the same problem.
Very annoying as the rest of the site now validates.
Any help yes please.

Cyberseed

moojoo · #2 (**permalink**) Aug 21st, 2006, 13:23

I had to use google maps for a project and I wrote a little piece of PHP to dynamically create the URLs based on information in a DB and strip out some white space etc. This may help you be able to do something to parse the URL into something the validator likes.

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<?php
$str = $row_mem_list['address'];
$str = preg_replace('/ /', '+', $str);
$city = $row_mem_list['city'];
$city = preg_replace('/ /', '+', $city);
?> 
      <li class="directions"><a target="_blank" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=<?php echo $str; ?>,+<?php echo $city; ?>,+<?php echo $row_mem_list['state']; ?>+<?php echo $row_mem_list['zip']; ?>">Get Directions</a></li>

ukgeoff · #3 (**permalink**) Aug 21st, 2006, 14:31

Without seeing the page I'm guessing you are coding to xhtml strict in which case it will complain about the '&' symbols in the url.

Need to change those to '&'.

cyberseed · #4 (**permalink**) Aug 21st, 2006, 16:07

Quote:

Originally Posted by ukgeoff

Without seeing the page I'm guessing you are coding to xhtml strict in which case it will complain about the '&' symbols in the url.

Need to change those to '&'.

Thanks ukgeoff it now validates - a simple fix

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