comment text show in php code example

Example 1: comment in php

<?php
// Author : https://www.codedweb.org/
// This is a single-line comment
# This is also a single-line comment in unix and linux
  
/*
This is a Multi-lines comment block
by this way you can add muliple lines on it. 
lines
*/
  
// You can also use comments to leave out parts of a code line
$var = 2 /* + 12 */ + 2;
echo $var;
?>

Example 2: comment in php

Comments in PHP can be used for several purposes, a very interesting one being that you can generate API documentation directly from them by using PHPDocumentor (http://www.phpdoc.org/).

Therefor one has to use a JavaDoc-like comment syntax (conforms to the DocBook DTD), example:
<?php
/**
* The second * here opens the DocBook commentblock, which could later on<br>
* in your development cycle save you a lot of time by preventing you having to rewrite<br>
* major documentation parts to generate some usable form of documentation.
*/
?>
Some basic html-like formatting is supported with this (ie <br> tags) to create something of a layout.