My Markup Validator

[nonsensep]

Hi! I would like to tell you about my first web tool. It's not really a markup validator, like the title says. It's just a PHP script that sends an HTTP request to the W3C Markup Validator and then outputs what it says about a given URI (as a PNG image). Here are some examples of using the validator on various websites:

<img src="http://www.nonsensep.x10hosting.com/markupvalid.php?uri=http://www.w3.org/" />

(Valid markup)

http://www.nonsensep.x10hosting.com/markupvalid.php?uri=http://www.youtube.com/

(Invalid markup)

http://www.nonsensep.x10hosting.com/markupvalid.php?uri=http://www.w3.org/&charset=iso-8859-1

(Tentatively valid markup)

http://www.nonsensep.x10hosting.com/markupvalid.php?uri=http://www.circuitcity.com/

(No <!DOCTYPE>)

http://www.nonsensep.x10hosting.com/markupvalid.php?uri=http://www.bestbuy.com/

(404 error, not a URI, etc.)

The image is just 176x31 pixels. As the colored text points out, it's only using one image file for many different cases. I hope you guys find it useful.

Any suggestions? Comments? Tell me so! I plan on making a better style sometime. But it works, and that's what counts. And feel free to use it however you like

[QuwenQ]

That seems useful, except for the minor problem that someone already made a button like this:

What's the advantage of using yours?

[nonsensep]

Yeah, but that image will always say "Valid XHTML 1.0", even when there are errors. My image changes every time and tells the user straight from the W3C validator whether the page is valid or not. And how many errors/warnings. For example:

http://www.nonsensep.x10hosting.com/markupvalid.php?uri=http://forums.x10hosting.com/

Now let's see what W3C says about the same URI:

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://forums.x10hosting.com/

Try using my image with your own URI. Just enter this in your address bar:

http://www.nonsensep.x10hosting.com/markupvalid.php?uri=http://YOUR_SITE_HERE/

[Archkronos]

Horray for lazy coding!

[nonsensep]

Horray for lazy coding!

thats how computers began! laziness!

[Slothie]

Interesting concept Glad to know there are actually developers on x10...

Have you implemented caching yet? Parsing the site every time the image is loaded would be rather taxing on the server. It would also cause the image to load slower as it has to wait for the server to download and parse the page...

Good work though :D

[eminemix]

Good job nonsensep
:coolugh:

[nonsensep]

thank you Slothie and eminemix! And about caching, I see what you're saying, but I'm not sure if that'd defeat the purpose of it or not...

Well, do you think there's a way to have a session for the website and when the session ends the cache expires? That would be sort of a compromise, I guess. I'll look into that.

Oh, and I'm planning on making one for CSS, also.

[Slothie]

You could cache it on an hourly basis or so. Sessions would be too short :P

[nonsensep]

I don't know, an hour seems too long. I don't think that there will be too much of a problem if the image takes a little while to load.