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PHP PHP Basics Getting to Know PHP PHP Comments

Alexander Chamwada
Alexander Chamwada
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Posted by Alexander Chamwada
Alexander Chamwada
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Tags in a docblock start with which character?

Is it this character "/"? Its not on the list

3 Answers

Alexander Davison
Alexander Davison
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If you meant to say a "comment", there's three ways to do it in PHP. And yes, you can't just have one / to make a comment, you need two of them.

Here's an example:

// This is a comment

This is NOT a comment, in fact this line of code will create an error

# This is also a comment

/* This is the only kind of comment
that can span multiple lines! Cool! */

Do you get it now? I hope you do :)

Good luck! ~Alex

Glenré Charl Labuschagné
Glenré Charl Labuschagné
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Glenré Charl Labuschagné
Glenré Charl Labuschagné
23,204 Points

Hi, Alexander, the key word here is Tags.

Tags are a type of specialized information (meta-data) about the associated element and always starts on a new line with an at-sign (@) followed by the name of the tag.

https://phpdoc.org/docs/latest/references/phpdoc/inline-tags/index.html

So the answer is the 'at sign (@)'.

Alexander Davison
Alexander Davison
65,469 Points

Can you give me a "Best Answer" so that this question won't be in the "Unanswered Questions" section of the community? Thank you very much! :)

I appreciate it.