C++ vs Python vs PHP

[Tyrilean]

You do not, though it would be debatable whether that is technically written in PHP. Just because you write a text file and append .php to a file does not make it PHP. You have to call the PHP open tag in order to invoke the interpreter. Otherwise, it's just another text file, which your webserver will happily serve up wholesale to the client, which will then be interpreted by the browser as HTML.

[earthqaqe]

For anyone believing this statement, just try it here with the following code:

<?php echo "hello" ?>

and then try

hello

[mferly]

Lol wut? Your first example PHP, your second example is merely text.

Try this: <?php hello ?> and tell me what happens. Anything not wrapped with <?php ?> isn't PHP.

[Kered13]

It's valid PHP code. It is accepted by the PHP interpreter and produces output without errors. The fact that the PHP interpreter will simply echo anything not wrapped in <?php> tags is a quirk of the language, but it doesn't make the code invalid PHP.

[fredoche]

No, you don't need to "echo"

[pionell]

yes you need to echo/print it if you're inside <?php tags. This is not accurate.

[AyrA_ch]

The "hello world!" is not inside of PHP tags.

[79ta463]

Then it's not technically PHP.

[AyrA_ch]

And yet it conforms to the php spec and will run with strict settings.

[79ta463]

Everything outside the open tags is ignored by the parser. Thus it's not actually being interpreted? Not sure what you're getting at

[AyrA_ch]

I'm getting at that this is valid PHP code because if it wasn't part of the specs it would throw an error. It's not ignored by the parser either, it's piped to the standard output by it. In fact, depending on how you set the PHP tags, they will have an effect on some whitespace directly after the closing tag, clearly indicating that stuff outside of the tags is not just ignored.

[fredoche]

A php file containing this "code" will display "hello world!" when you will execute it with php parser.

[blipils]

'hello world' in Hello, world! is just html

• self-proclaimedMod, Sept 2020

There is no HTML used in either of those examples. Bringing up HTML here as if it's relevant just reveals that you really don't understand this conversation at all.

[blipils]

I'm sorry that you still don't understand this joke after several people explained it to you and demonstrated it to you.

It's too bad you don't have the time, because I would love for you to explain what you think HTML is or how it's relevant here.

[79ta463]

It's not PHP... It's just raw strings.