note 126012 deleted from language.basic-syntax.phpmode by mazzanet

Note Submitter: coder at fishlet dot com ---- I find the notion that PHP "starts parsing" inside a <?php ... ?> tag, and "just passes through" everything outside a tag, to be a confusing oversimplification and generally wrong. For example, this code would be inexplicable: <?php for ($i = 0; $i < 10; $i++) { ?> Repeated<br> <?php } ?> I think a better way to look at it is that the PHP parser turns any text NOT inside a <?php ... ?> tag into an implicit echo statement that is embedded at the corresponding place in the code.