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Comments in PHP
A comment in PHP code is a line that is not executed as a part of the program. Its only purpose is to
be read by someone who is looking at the code.
Comments can be used to:
Let others understand your code
Remind yourself of what you did - Most programmers have experienced coming back to their
own work a year or two later and having to re-figure out what they did. Comments can remind
you of what you were thinking when you wrote the code
Leave out some parts of your code
PHP supports several ways of commenting:
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Syntax for comments in PHP code:
// This is a single-line comment
# This is also a single-line comment
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Single Line Comments
Single line comments start with // .
Any text between // and the end of the line will be ignored (will not be executed).
You can also use # for single line comments, but in this tutorial we will use // .
The following examples uses a single-line comment as an explanation:
Example
A comment before the code:
// Outputs a welcome message:
echo "Welcome Home!";
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A comment at the end of a line:
echo "Welcome Home!"; // Outputs a welcome message
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Which one is NOT a legal PHP comment:
# comment goes here
// comment goes here
'' comment goes here
/* comment goes here */
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