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Instruction separation

As in C or Perl, PHP requires instructions to be terminated with a semicolon at the end of each statement. The closing tag of a block of PHP code

automatically implies a semicolon; you do not need to have a semicolon terminating the last line of a PHP block. The closing tag for the block will include

the immediately trailing newline if one is present.

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(You have to add an extra enter after if you want to see a newline in the output.

james dot d dot noyes at lmco dot com 05-May-2008 11:42

If you are embedding this in XML, you had better place the ending '?>' there or the XML parser will puke on you. XML parsers do not like

processing instructions without end tags, regardless of what PHP does.

If you're doing HTML like 90% of the world, or if you are going to process/interpret the PHP before the XML parser ever sees it, then you

can likely get away with it, but it's still not best practice for XML.

Krishna Srikanth 17-Aug-2006 04:44

Do not mis interpret

if you no more html to write after the code.

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