Simple Question

[jamesjmann]

I've seen this,

<?php } ?>

in a lot of scripts at the very end of the script. What does this piece of code do?

 

[Pikachu2000]

It closes an open curly brace from earlier in the code.

[Maq]

Right, a lot of PHP scripts will break in/out of PHP to write HTML, JS, etc...  But like Pika mentioned, it's to terminate a condition/loop whatever.

[iPixel]

For a visual reference...

 

<?php
if($variable == "xxxx")
    {
    ?>
           <!-- DO SOME HTML JS OR OTHER CODE HERE -->
    <?php
    }
    ?>

[jamesjmann]

For a visual reference...

 

<?php
if($variable == "xxxx")
    {
    ?>
           <!-- DO SOME HTML JS OR OTHER CODE HERE -->
    <?php
    }
    ?>

 

so you can't write the html or javascript within the bracket like this?

<?php
if($variable == "xxxx")
    {
<!-- DO SOME HTML JS OR OTHER CODE HERE -->
    }
    ?>

Or can you do it both ways?

[KevinM1]

Unless you're printing or echoing it, you need to exit PHP.