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Core PHP Programming: Using PHP to Build Dynamic Web Sites
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Core PHP Programming: Using PHP to Build Dynamic Web Sites

by Leon Atkinson
August 2000
Intermediate to advanced
800 pages
13h 15m
English
Pearson
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Appendix D. PHP TAGS

There are several ways to mark an area of PHP script in a Web page, displayed below. The results of the script, if any, will take the place in the final output. If a line break follows the closing tag, it will be removed. This helps you write more readable code.

<?
?>

This is the classic method for marking PHP code. Many of the examples found on the Internet use this method, probably because it's the method that's been available the longest. PHP version 2 used this method except that the second question mark was omitted.

This method is called "short tags" and support for it may be turned on or off. One way is to use the short_tags function described in Chapter 11, "Time, Date, and Configuration Functions." A directive in the ...

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