How to easily commenting PHP+HTML code

Question

Especially for easy and small projects, I leave pure HTML in my PHP source code and I simply add the relevant PHP when needed, and so many times I have something like this:

<div class="header-info">
  <p><?php echo $w["emailText"][$lang];?></p>
</div>

Now, apart from it being good or bad practice, how can I easily comment out the whole 3 lines? If I enclose them in HTML comments like these (sorry for the space but otherwise they are not printed):

 < !-- 
    ... my code ...
 -->

then PHP is still executed. If I enclose them in something like

 <?php
   if (0) {
 ?>
   ... my code ...
 <?php
   }
 ?>

then the nested "?>" will close my PHP if(0).

Again, I am fully aware that I should better use a Model-View-Controller approach and not mix different "worlds", but as said, for small projects it does not make sense and I am just asking if there is another solution to the 2 that I proposed :)

Thank you

Answer 1

If you do not needed, why not remove it completely? If you want to prevent div tag from outputing to browser, then you can comment all of them, like following.

<?php /*
  <div class="header-info">
    <p><?php echo $w["emailText"][$lang];?></p>
  </div>
*/ ?>