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CHAPTER 3 • PHP BASICSwww.it-ebooks.infowould nonetheless be highly inefficient for the engine to consider every line as a potential PHPcommand. Therefore, the engine needs some means to immediately determine which areas of the pageare PHP-enabled. This is logically accomplished by delimiting the PHP code. There are four delimitationvariants.Default SyntaxThe default delimiter syntax opens with , like this:Welcome!Some static output hereIf you save this code as test.php and execute it from a PHP-enabled web server, you’ll see theoutput shown in Figure 3-1.Figure 3-1. Sample PHP outputShort-TagsFor less motivated typists, an even shorter delimiter syntax is available. Known as short-tags, this syntaxforgoes the php reference required in the default syntax. However, to use this feature, you need toenable PHP’s short_open_tag directive. An example follows:42