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I'm making a new theme and using XHTML to write the template files. To be compliant, I need a line that says <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> in the header.thtml file. Geeklog keeps trying to parse this as PHP. (See lib-common.php, about line 970) Since header.thtml is at the top of every page, it breaks all of the pages on my site.

Is there an easy way to circumvent this? I tried removing the section of code, but apparently I didn't do it right because that just broke the page even more. I would like to keep it in there in case I need to use PHP in the template files in the future.

I believe what you want to do is to write a simple line in PHP that echos your xhtml line.



And this isn't really a Geeklog issue at all. It's an issue with the PHP parser used in your webserver. I've had similar things happen in plain PHP pages.

IIRC, you can disable the short_open_tag option in your php.ini and it would work without the "echo" workaround.

bye, Dirk