What does <? php echo (“”); … echo(“”); ?> mean?

Question

The question is the tag

I\'ve seen one script I am working on, uses it:

echo (\"

\");


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Answer 1

echo (""); is a php code, and <prev> tries to be HTML, but isn't.

As @pekka said, its probably supposed to be <pre>

Answer 2

I think you're talking about <pre></pre>. element is displayed in a fixed-width font, and it preserves both spaces and line breaks.

try printing an array with a **<pre>** and whitout **<pre>**

$arr = array(1, 2, 3);

echo '<pre>';
print_r($arr);
echo '</pre>';

print_r($arr); 

Answer 3

The PHP function echo() prints out its input to the web server response.

echo("Hello World!");

prints out Hello World! to the web server response.

echo("<prev>");

prints out the tag to the web server response.

echo do not require valid HTML tags. You can use PHP to print XML, images, excel, HTML and so on.

<prev> is not a HTML tag. Is is a valid XML tag, but since I don't know what page you are working in, i cannot tell you what it is. Maybe it is the root tag of a XML page, or a miswritten <pre> tag.

Answer 4

The <prev> tag doesn't exist, but it's probably the <pre> HTML tag to put around debug output, to improve readability. It's not a secret PHP hack. :)

Answer 5

It is nor php nor html it sounds like specific xml tag.