Just to add another perspective to this, the response I've often seen to this sort of enquiry is that you should regard ?>whatever<?php as the equivalent of ; echo "whatever"; (with appropriate escaping applied to "whatever", of course). Cheers! Mike -- Mike Ford, Electronic Information Developer, Libraries and Learning Innovation, 403a Leslie Silver Building, City Campus, Leeds Metropolitan University, Woodhouse Lane, LEEDS, LS1 3ES, United Kingdom E: m.ford@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx T: +44 113 812 4730 > -----Original Message----- > From: Nathan Grey [mailto:greynng@xxxxxxxxx] > Sent: 11 October 2013 16:20 > To: Stuart Dallas > Cc: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Trying to understand what is happening in this > code > > 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? > > > ----------------------------- > Nathan Grey > 404-337-9005 > > > On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 11:06 AM, Stuart Dallas <stuart@xxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > > On 11 Oct 2013, at 16:01, Nathan Grey <greynng@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > Hi - I am new to PHP so this is probably a very rudimentary > question. I > > > posed it over at Stack Overflow and got several responses but > none of > > them > > > clarified the issue for me. > > > > > > > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19309369/trying-to-understand- > how-these-php-sections-work-together > > > > > > Here's the code I am trying to understand: > > > > > > <body> > > > <h1>The first twenty Fibonacci numbers:</h1> > > > <ul> > > > <?php > > > $first = 0; > > > $second = 1; > > > for ($i = 0; $i < 20; $i++) { > > > ?> > > > <li><?php echo $first + $second ?></li> > > > <?php > > > $temp = $first + $second; > > > $first = $second; > > > $second = $temp; > > > > > > } ?> > > > </ul></body> > > > > > > This code produces an unordered list of the first 20 Fibonacci > numbers. I > > > understand that HTML and PHP can be interspersed. I also > understand that > > > the PHP processor will look over the code and pick up the code > that is > > > between the opening and closing PHP tags. Here's where I am > confused: > > > > > > 1. Can the processor really reassemble a for-loop that is broken > into > > > segments by opening and closing tags? It seems like the > integrity of the > > > loop would be broken. I would expect that the entire loop would > have to > > be > > > contained within a single pair of opening and closing tags for > it to > > work. > > > > > > 2. Even if the processor is able to reassemble the loop > seamlessly, how > > do > > > the <li> tags get included in the loop since they fall outside > of the PHP > > > tags? > > > > Probably the easiest way to understand what's happening is to > assume that > > PHP converts anything in the file that's outside PHP tags in to > echo > > statements, and then executes the result. This isn't too far from > what > > actually happens. > > > > PHP compiles any script in to bytecodes, which it then executes. > Anything > > outside PHP tags does, essentially, get passed in to the echo > language > > construct. > > > > Does that help at all? > > > > -Stuart > > > > -- > > Stuart Dallas > > 3ft9 Ltd > > http://3ft9.com/ > > To view the terms under which this email is distributed, please go to http://disclaimer.leedsmet.ac.uk/email.htm -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
