"Commenting out" problems

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Hi.



I have noticed on quite a few templates, if i comment out code using the standard:




then sometimes on the site, the closing - - > is displayed, on some templates, both the opening AND closing is displayed.



what am i missing here, is there another way to comment out rather than just erasing code?



many thanks to all



g

2

I have ran into that quite a bit…I really just think its something that the smarty templates do not like. It doesn’t happen all the time, but it does happen.



I haven’t researched it enough so my other option was just to delete the line.

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The way I comment the most is with:


{* This is your comment *}



This seems to work for the most part, but every now and again I have to use something else.



Brandon

4

To comment out code in Smarty you should use


{* Smarty comments *}


this is not sent to the Smarty engine for processing and is not displayed in the browser, unlike

```php


```

which are sent to browser and viewable in Source View, these are useful for adding notes.