[SOLVED] php coding question

[CyberShot]

I am learning php. Just started. I was messing with echo and I found that if you do

<?php echo "hello world"; ?> 

it prints hello world.

 

but if you do

<?php
    echo "hello world";
    echo "hello again";
?>

  You get an error. can anyone tell me why?

[Mark Baker]

Can't see anything wrong with it.

What error are you getting?

[CyberShot]

it seems that I get the error because of a <br /> tag.

 

<?php echo "hello world"; <br />
    print "hello world";  <br />
     echo "hello" . " " . "world"; <br />
    echo 2+3;  <br />
    echo 2+9; <br />?> 

 

  The tutorial I am watching says that the server wouldn't care about the br tag. but it does in this version

[Mark Baker]

<br /> is part of what you're trying to output using echo:

<?php echo "hello world<br />";
    print "hello world<br />";
     echo "hello" . " " . "world<br />";
    echo (2+3)."<br />";
    echo (2+9)."<br />";
?> 

 

[ILMV]

There is nothing syntactically wrong with your code, as far as the PHP server is concernerd it will print it out like this...

 

'hello world' and then 'hello again' right after.

[CyberShot]

ok, that makes sense. thanks.