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Adding comments to PHP scripts

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Adding comments to PHP scripts

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It doesn't matter how experienced you become at writing php or any other type of code. When you come back to a script several months later, the meaning won't always be obvious. So it's useful to add comments to remind you what the code was for. Comments are also a useful way of disabling parts of a script when troubleshooting problems. PHP has three different styles of comments. Two of them are the same as in JavaScript, so let's deal with them first. And to make it a little bit easier to see where the comments are, I'm going to reorganize the script in this page so the PHP is on a beginning of a line. Just move that. The first style of comment is anything between two forward slashes and the end of the line. Is treated as a comment and ignored by the php engine. So, after this echo stringtoupper city I'm going to add a comment. I type in two forward slashes. And I'm using Dream Weaver as my editor. You can see that it's already changed the color to orange. That's syntax highlighting…

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