<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Instruction separation</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.44"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PHP Manual" HREF="manual.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Basic syntax" HREF="language.basic-syntax.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Basic syntax" HREF="language.basic-syntax.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Comments" HREF="language.basic-syntax.comments.html"></HEAD ><BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >PHP Manual</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="language.basic-syntax.html" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" >Chapter 5. Basic syntax</TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="language.basic-syntax.comments.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="sect1" ><H1 CLASS="sect1" ><A NAME="language.basic-syntax.instruction-separation" >Instruction separation</A ></H1 ><P > Instructions are separated the same as in C or perl - terminate each statement with a semicolon.</P ><P > The closing tag (?>) also implies the end of the statement, so the following are equivalent: <DIV CLASS="informalexample" ><P ></P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" WIDTH="100%" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="programlisting" > 1 2 <?php 3 echo "This is a test"; 4 ?> 5 6 <?php echo "This is a test" ?> 7 </PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P ></P ></DIV ></P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="language.basic-syntax.html" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="manual.html" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="language.basic-syntax.comments.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Basic syntax</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="language.basic-syntax.html" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Comments</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >