[RESOLVED] Comment help!!

[Square1]

Hi all:

Something that should be very simple is throwing me a curve.

I need to comment out a few lines from the following but the comments are not working!!

          	if ($this->error) {
             $this->error_message = "AuthorizeNet Error:

	//Response Code: ".$this->response_code."
            //Response Subcode: ".$this->response_subcode."
           // Response Reason Code: ".$this->response_reason_code."
            Response Reason Text: ".$this->response_reason_text."
            ";
        }

I am not familiar with OOP so it may an OOP thing I am missing.

Thank you!

[bradgrafelman]

They "aren't working" because they aren't comments. The '//' sequence is being placed inside of a string, so PHP is just including them in the string.

[Square1]

So do I just have to remove the unwanted part of the string completely?

         if ($this->error) {
             $this->error_message = "AuthorizeNet Error:

            Response Reason Text: ".$this->response_reason_text."
            ";
        } 

I would prefer to have the original info in there but not functioning

[bradgrafelman]

That's one way of doing it, yes.

Another would be to chop the string up into more (smaller) pieces that are concatenated together (e.g. don't let the string span multiple lines - close the string at the end of one line and start a new one at the beginning of the next). That way, you can comment out an entire line's worth of pieces as you were originally trying to do.

[Square1]

Thanks again bradgrafelman. I broke up the string as you recommended. Now it seems so easy!