Re: baffled - please explain

Malcolm Mill wrote:

Hi, I just came across a sniplet of code in a book I'm reading and I'm not sure what point the author is trying to make. The code is: function my_function ( ) {

      echo 'My function was called';

} <?php

        function my_function ( )
        {                                       ?>

My function was called <?php

        }

?> What are those single opening and closing curly braces doing in separate <?php ?> tag blocks? What's the point? The author says "Withing a function, curly braces enclose the code that performs the task you require. Between these braces, you can have anything that is legal elsewheere in a PHP script" - PHP and MySQL Web Development, 3rd Edition: Welling & Thomson. If the point is to illustrate what this quote says, does that mean...

{                                       ?>

My function was called <?php } ...is a syntactically correct code block for my_function?

It is correct but it is not suggested. The author want to show to you instead of using echo 'My function was called', you can do in that way. but { ?> My function was called <?php } is not correct :) best regards adwin www.kuya-kuya.net www.e-rhema.net