Re: ### symbol/character usage in code..?

Thanks - now saw that on the PHP.Net documentation page relating to comments. Think what confused me was that I'm just used to using/seeing // and /* being made use of, and found it odd that the prior developer had been using combinations of all of these. Thanks Jacob Kruger Blind Biker Skype: BlindZA "Roger Wilco wants to welcome you...to the space janitor's closet..." ----- Original Message ----- From: Derek C Hopkins To: Jacob Kruger Cc: php-windows@lists.php.net Sent: Tuesday, 24 June, 2014 3:56 PM Subject: Re: [PHP-WIN] ### symbol/character usage in code..? Hi In PHP the # is a comment for everything on the line following the # so as all these lines start with a # the rest of the lines are all comments Cheers Derek At 6/24/2014 06:04 AM, Jacob Kruger wrote: Know this doesn't have too much to do with windows specific usage, but am working on/via windows installation of XAMPP myself, and am just wondering why in some new code am busy reviewing, they seem to be using sort of comment blocks inside code sort of like the following bit of text: ###start something # blah ###end of whatever Now, yes, in python, the # symbol is the comment character, but, can't imagine what this is doing in PHP, and, part of my reason for asking this question here is that google searches relating to the # character, or even searches in something like an offline .chm file are impossible, due to it's common usage in HTML, etc...<smile> Stay well Jacob -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/ ) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php Cheers Derek Derek C Hopkins, Phone +1(450)678-7768 6640, Biarritz, Fax +1(450)678-4252 Brossard, E-Mail derek.hopkins@sympatico.ca QC, Canada, J4Z-2A2. ==== FreeBMD - England and Wales - Birth - Marriage and Death Transcriptions < http://FreeBMD.rootsweb.com> ==== Check out FreeBMD Scan2 Syndicate page (revised daily) Please bookmark our new home http://www.scan2.ca/scan2.html Check out Abney Park Indexing Project (revised 14 MAR 2008, 195,000 names) <http://scan2.ca/nlisa .html> Check out the Quebec Family History web page < http://www.qfhs.ca/index.html>