Hi;
I got the 'Hello World' practice file working then began playing with
it. My problem is getting the commenting out to work. I have obviously
missed something.
Here is the little program:
<html>
<head>
<title>'PHP Test'</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php echo '<p>Hello World</p>' ?>
<!--
<?php
if (strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'], 'MSIE') !== FALSE) {
<h3>'strpos()must have returned non-false'</h3>
<p>'You are using Internet Explorer'</p>
<?php
} else {
?>
<h3>'strpos() must have returned false'</h3>
<p>'You are not using Internet Explorer.'</p>
<?php
}
?>
-->
</body>
</html>
<?php /*phpinfo();*/ ?>
The HTML manual told me to use <!-- and --> to make comments. The body
outside of the comment tags worked on my browser as it should. The
stuff in between <!-- ... --> is things that I am trying out (playing
with). I wanted to comment out the stuff in order to find the error
causing the blank screen that I am getting on my browser. My main
concern and to which I don't seem to be able to find an answer is how to
comment out properly.
Similarly, <?php /*phpinfo();*/ ?> at the bottom is something I used to
experiment with commenting out in PHP. Originally I had /*
<?php /*phpinfo(); ?> */ placed where it is now -- outside of HTML or
any other tags yet the string showed up on my browser screen. That
doesn't make sense to me. So, why?
--
Regards Bill