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Editing PHP code

• php code can be edited in the html view of the editor.
• php code is embedded into a post in the same way as you are used to: a php block begins with ''. The short open tag, i.e. '') somewhere inside a string in your php code block. If you do so, this ending delimeter will be matched and your code will inevitably break apart. So don’t write e.g.:

    some text
    <?php $test = "hello ?>"  ?>
    more text

• Writing '$test = "hello ?>"' instead will not lead to any problems.
• Php code is not executed in the global scope. If you need to gain access to variables in the global scope you need to "import" them first with 'global $var1, $var2;'.
• This plugin does not evaluate every single code snippet, but the content of the post as a whole. So the following lines won’t result in errors:

    <?php if ($test==true) { ?>
    The test was successful.
    <?php } else { ?>
    The test failed.
    <?php } ?>

• When switching between html and visual view the php code is not altered in any case. All html tags, whitespaces etc. in your code are preserved.