IE / Firefox xml discrepancy

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#1

Greetings,

I am having a problem with displaying XML Grid data in Firefox & Safari.
The web page displays a message with the contents of the xml data that should appear in the grid.

There is no problem in IE.
I believe it may be a problem with the data in the MYSQL database.
I am using dhtmlxconnector to render the grid data.

Is there any way I can isolate the data that may be causing the issue?
Why would this only be an issue with ‘non’ IE Browsers?

Thank you so much.
Rob.

#2

When viewing the Firefox error log I see…

Error: XML or text declaration not at start of entity
Source File: localhost/cst/training.php
Line: 2, Column: 1
Source Code:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8' ?>StudentCourseDateCompanyInstructorFacilityGradepx#connector_text_filter,#connector_text_filter,#connector_text_filter,#connector_text_filter,#connector_text_filter,#connector_text_filter,#connector_text_filter

I think it has to do with whitespace in the xml stream ???

Hope this helps.
Rob

#3

The error occurs because of whitespace before xml , for sure.
Check the connector file and any includes - they must not contain any text outside of php code blocks.

#4

Here is how I seem to have solved this issue.
In the php file that builds the grid, I had a security snippet that ensures that there is a valid user logged in.
The php file had multiple <?php ... ?> in the file.
When I removed the multiple <?php ... ?> and only included one <?php> declaration in the file, it seemed to resolve the issue within the Fire Fox Browser.
As I am relatively ‘new’ to PHP I am not sure wheather it is best practise to only have one <?php> declaration in each url ???

Thanks.