Re: Comment modes behavior in HTML and PHP

From: Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 14:19:02 +0000
Subject: Re: Comment modes behavior in HTML and PHP
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At 7/28/2007 07:40 AM, C.R.Vegelin wrote:
I have a PHP script, as follows: <!-- <?php
       echo "should this be echoed ?";
?> --> As expected, the browser shows nothing, but when I view Source in the browser, I see: <!-- start HTML comment should this be echoed ?--> Shouldn't it be just: <!-- -->, without the echo result ?
I don't expect PHP to be active between <!--     -->.
<!-- ... --> is an HTML comment. /* ... */ and //... are PHP comments. The HTML comment syntax does not affect PHP, and PHP comment syntax does not affect HTML. http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.basic-syntax.comments.php Regards, Paul __________________________ Paul Novitski Juniper Webcraft Ltd. http://juniperwebcraft.com

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