Posted by Oli Filth on 11/23/05 21:21

Stefan Mueller said the following on 23/11/2005 18:07:
>>PHP echoes the string 'From: "User" <user@inter.net>', which is sent to
>>the browser.
>>
>>Browser receives this, and tries to interpret it as HTML (assuming page
>>has been delivered with text/html header).
>>
>>In HTML, by definition, anything within < > is interpreted as a markup
>>tag (even if it's an invalid tag), and therefore isn't shown.
>
>
> Okay, thanks for your explanation.
> Therefore my thinking was wrong that PHP removes all the PHP statements
> before the browser sees the generated code.

PHP does remove all the PHP statements!

There are no PHP statements in the string:

From: "User" <user@inter.net>

This is what gets sent to the browser.



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Oli

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