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santoshkumar savadatti
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I started learning PHP to create a simple website i'm planning.
I have a simple Question:



I have omitted some code to be specific about the point. The code is from chapter 13 of wrox Beginning PhP 5.3.
What i want to know is, why do we have stray "<?" tags? e.g:
Also, why is there PHP snippet after </html> tag?
I think this is a question anybody with server-side scripting can answer
Thanks
 
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They are not stray tags. Each ?> belongs to a corresponding <?php tag.

Inside a <?php ?> block, your php code is executed. Anything outside a php block is directly emitted to the resulting html.
 
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Thanks Stephan.
But why is there the code snippet after </html>
 
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Found this Tutorial helpful.
 
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This is html/php code which means you have to seperate the two in the code so the server knows which part of the code belongs to it and which he will pass on to the clients browser, you do that by putting php inside <?php ?> tags.
Remember php is server-side while html is client-side, what the server sees and actually matters to it is this:
 
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I'm newbie in php,and i want to step my foot in,
 
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