Inserting an HTML comment into PHP

I'm using Drupal, and on one of my pages I have to input some PHP code, and within that PHP code I want to insert an HTML comment that looks like this:

<!--pagebreak-->

PHP:

This comment activates a function in another module that splits the page up into to separate pages. The reason I need it within the PHP code and not in between two separate <?php ... ?> blocks is because the code before and the code after the HTML comment need the same variables. If I just do a normal print statement PHP basically ignores the whole comment and goes straight to the ; at the end of the line and gives me an 'unexpected $end' error. So what I want to do is to be able to put that HTML comment within the confines of a block of PHP code and still have it parse as it would if it was outside the block of PHP code.

 

I think you're misunderstanding the scope of php. If you create a variable in the global scope in any php snippet, it'll be available anywhere further on the page in the global scope.

Closing the php block and opening a new one doesn't kill all of the existing variables.

<?php $x = "Roar!"; ?>
... random html here ...
<?php echo $x; //  This outputs "Roar!" ?>

PHP:

You must have made a typo. I was able to output <!-- pagebreak --> just fine with both print and echo.

echo "<!-- pagebreak -->";

PHP:

Good luck,
- Walkere

 

Well there are different ways:

An IF Statement if your achieving that.

<?php

if($something){
echo "<!-pagebreak-->";
}
else
{
echo "Something Else";
}

PHP:

A simple echo

<?php
echo "<!-pagebreak-->";
?>

PHP:

Something Else

<?php
if($something){
$x = "<!--pagebreak-->";
}
else
{
$x = "SOMETHING ELSE";
}

echo $x;
?>

PHP: