PHP Tags

[davidf85]

How does PHP continuity exist in different php tags?

for example, if i connect to a database in a header,

and close the tag,

can I still work off of the same database in another tag?

 

 

[dragon_sa]

certainly can as long as you dont close the mysql link in the previous tag, its only when you load another page do you need to call the database connection again.

[kicken]

There is no separation of  stuff between tags.  You can imagine that all the different blocks get squished together into one giant script, and anything that was outside the tags is just turned into an echo.

 

Eg:

<?php
$db = mysql_connect();
//do stuff
?>
<p>echo some
<br>
html here
</p>
<?php
$q = mysql_query();
//do more stuff
?>

 

is functionally equivilent to:

<?php
$db = mysql_connect();
//do stuff

echo '<p>echo some
<br>
html here
</p>
';

$q = mysql_query();
//do more stuff
?>