Nesting Block Comments

[code green]

Has anybody got a trick for commenting out blocks of code that contain block comments.
This would be on a temporary basis and only used in degugging.

I vaguely remember doing something in 'C' that used dates and CONSTANTS
and was quite professional.

[Atli]

You could try using a heredoc string to comment it out...

Like:

<?php
class foo {
 
    private $name;
 
    /**
     * A constructor!
     */
    public function __construct($name) {
        $this->name = $name;
    }
 
    /**
     * Is it a bird? Or a plane?
     */
    function bar() {
        echo $this->oof();
 
        $void <<< DEBUG
/** Commented out for debugging purposes! **/
    }
 
    /**
     * This needs to be commented out
     */
    function oof {
        return "No! It's a {$this->name}!";
    }
DEBUG;
 
    } // To close the foo function while debugging
}
?> 

[Dormilich]

the only thing I can think of is destroying the closing block comment tag. should be OK for debugging.