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		emilw on April 10, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: PHP: A fractal of bad design <? echo "Hello World";

rjknight on April 10, 2012 [–]

Actually, you just need this:

Hello world

If all you want to do is print some text, just put some text outside the <?php delimiter. If you want to do nothing else, you don't even need the <?php delimiter.

emilw on April 11, 2012 | [–]

True, but he/she mentioned specifically a "Hello World" in PHP.

skrebbel on April 11, 2012 | | [–]

    Hello World

is valid PHP

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