Hi Daniel, Paul, Robert, Rick,
Thanks for making it clear.
Have a nice weekend.
Cor
----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Brown" <parasane@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Paul Novitski" <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2007 4:29 PM
Subject: Re: Comment modes behavior in HTML and PHP
On 7/28/07, Paul Novitski <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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
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Taking a moment to explain the WHY of what's happening should help
you understand it a bit more, Cor. All HTML markup - including
comments - is parsed on the browser side, while PHP is done on the
server side. The server doesn't parse HTML at all, and PHP doesn't
have any knowledge of it's position within a script, or what else
exists outside of the <? ?> tags. Thus, PHP is parsed, compiled, and
executed prior to the web server serving the end-result as pure HTML,
which is then parsed by the browser upon receipt.
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