In PHP, why does [removed] not show a parse error?

Question

I was running the following PHP code:

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There were no parse errors and the output was \"

Answer 1

In PHP, you can use the script tag to open a PHP block.

So you can use

So in your example you have mixed the normal open tag, , with the closing tag, . So the parser assumes that all the text after the closing script tag is normal HTML.

Read more in Escaping from HTML.