Megan — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 15:09:36 +0000

HTML strict sounds like a good plan to start off with. Once you get your site validating there you can move on to xHTML. xHTML is really almost the same as HTML.

Reece S — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 12:20:36 +0000

Hi there. welcome to TWF.
PHP is identical to HTML, the only difference is that it tell the browser there may be PHP data (Database Interactive)
You can make the strict html inside a php file, just be sure to seperate the php from the html with tags.

e.g.

Quote:

<?php <strong>//open php code</strong> YOUR PHP CODE ?>
//close php code

//start html file

YOUR HTML CONTENTS

With me?

Also, about the XHTML Transitional, that can be coded under a PHP file.
PHP code does not override the Doctype.
You could have a massive php script, above a xhtml transitional document, with Xhtml transitional Doctype, and it would still validate as XHTML.
hope this helps.