Re: Trying to understand what is happening in this code

On 11 Oct 2013, at 16:20, Nathan Grey <greynng@gmail.com> wrote: > Stuart, Jose - Thanks for your quick response. Are you saying that the processor echos all the > html tags it sees. Is it doing something like this to the script: > > echo <body> > echo <h1>The first twenty Fibonacci numbers:</h1> > echo <ul> > <?php > $first = 0; > $second = 1; > for ($i = 0; $i < 20; $i++) { > ?> > echo <li><?php echo $first + $second ?></li> > <?php > $temp = $first + $second; > $first = $second; > $second = $temp; > > } ?> > echo </ul> > echo </body> > > Or is it just the line in question that is being echoed? I'm not sure exactly what it gets compiled to, but I also don't see why it matters. All that matters is that content outside of PHP tags will simply get echo'd. -Stuart -- Stuart Dallas 3ft9 Ltd http://3ft9.com/