Somethings wrong in my php function?

[Bannana97]

The idea:

I call "GetNumberOfPages(Instance $Number of items)"
and it returns the number of items I sent it.

function GetNumOfPages($rows) {
$max = 5;
$pgs = $rows;
$ps = 1;
$a = 0;
echo "<!-- while ($pgs > $max) { -->";
while($pgs > $max) {
$a++;
echo "<!-- $a -->";
if($a == $max) {
$ps++;
}
$pgs = $pgs -1;
}
return $ps;
}

[Rob Pomeroy]

I have no idea what you're trying to do here.  What's all the <!-- --> stuff supposed to be doing?  Is that within <script> tags?

[TechGeek]

The <!-- comment here--->  is for comments in PHP. Nothing will be shown because everything in teh output is a comment. use echo"$ps"; or echo"$a"; without the comment code.

[kpac]

The <!-- comment here--->  is for comments in PHP.

No, they are HTML comments.

/*
This is a block
of omments
*/

# One line comment
// One line comment

Those are PHP comments.

[TechGeek]

No, they are HTML comments.

/*
This is a block
of omments
*/

# One line comment
// One line comment

Those are PHP comments.

But since he's using echo those are comments and won't be shown.

[Rob Pomeroy]

The "while" echoed in the middle of the HTML comment is what's throwing me...