PHP "compiles" comments?

[Bill H]

I was working on some php code yesterday and one of the lines in it
was:

print "<?xml version=\"1.0\" ?>\n";

when I tried to run it I would get an unexpected $end on the last line
of the script. After a while of debugging the code, commenting out
lines etc I figured out the above line was causing the issue by
changing it to:

print "<?xml version=\"1.0\" ?".">\n";

and it worked.

The reason I mention compiles comments in the subject, is even with
the original line commented php was still giving the error. I finally
figured out it didn't like the ?next to each other, it was seeing it
as an end to the script, even though it was originally in a print line
and then later in a commented line.

Is this normal, that you have to always seperate ?when using it in
php no matter where it is?

Bill H

[Joe Butler]

I'm not sure about the ?issue and php seeing it inside comments. Sounds
like a bug to me.

See if single quotes around the string works. It may be a better option to
use anyway:

print '<?xml version="1.0" ?>\n'; // with single string quotes, nothing
should be evaluated between the single quotes. Hopefully, the ?will not
be interpreted as a close script tag as before.

Also, as an aside, I understand echo instead of print in this context is
faster too.

so, echo '<?xml .... ';
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>I was working on some php code yesterday and one of the lines in it
was:

print "<?xml version=\"1.0\" ?>\n";

when I tried to run it I would get an unexpected $end on the last line
of the script. After a while of debugging the code, commenting out
lines etc I figured out the above line was causing the issue by
changing it to:

print "<?xml version=\"1.0\" ?".">\n";

and it worked.

The reason I mention compiles comments in the subject, is even with
the original line commented php was still giving the error. I finally
figured out it didn't like the ?next to each other, it was seeing it
as an end to the script, even though it was originally in a print line
and then later in a commented line.

Is this normal, that you have to always seperate ?when using it in
php no matter where it is?

Bill H

[Captain Paralytic]

On 28 Aug, 22:01, "Joe Butler" <ffffh.no.s...@ hotmail-spammers-
paradise.comwro te:

I'm not sure about the ?issue and php seeing it inside comments. *Sounds
like a bug to me.

See if single quotes around the string works. *It may be a better option to
use anyway:

print '<?xml version="1.0" ?>\n'; // with single string quotes, nothing
should be evaluated between the single quotes. *Hopefully, the ?will not
be interpreted as a close script tag as before.

Also, as an aside, I understand echo instead of print in this context is
faster too.

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