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====PHP====

Comments in [[PHP]] can be either incurly C++brace style (both inlineline and block), or useline hashesdelimited with <code>#</code>l. [[PHPDoc]]Blocks iscannot be nested. Starting in PHP 8, a style<code>#</code> adaptedonly frommeans Javadoccomment andif isit's anot commonimmediately standardfollowed forby documenting<code>[</code>. PHPOtherwise, it delimits an attribute, which continues till the next <code>]</code>. For example:

Starting in PHP 8, the # sign can only mean a comment if it's not immediately followed by '['. Otherwise, it will mean a function attribute, which runs until ']':

<syntaxhighlight lang="php">

/**

* This class contains a sample documentation.

*

* @author Unknown

*/

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class MyAttribute {

const VALUE = 'value';

// ThisC++ isstyle an inlineline comment. It starts with '//', like in C++.

private $value;

# Thisscript is a Unix-style inlineline comment, which starts with '#'.

public function __construct($value = null) {

$this->value = $value;

}

/*

This is a multiline comment.

These comments cannot be nested.

*/

}

</syntaxhighlight>