Question

I have a line of PHP source code I would like to keep in a PHP file as a comment, so it can be used when necessary. This is only a debugging script, so keeping the file clean is not an issue.

Nevertheless, I am trying to comment these lines using /* and */:

/*
$path = FOLDER . "*/*/*/*/*.gif";
$files = glob($path);
*/

But this result in a parse error, because the path */*/*/ closes the comment block. An opening /* won’t be treated as an opening comment inside a string, but since the commented code is not parsed, the */ is treated as a closing comment.

Can anyone can think of a workaround without using //?

Answer 1

use "*/*/*/*/*.gif" slashes as DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR constant?

$path = FOLDER . '*' . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . '*' . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR  . '.gif';

You can make a shortcut like define('DS', DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR);