title: Multiple line comment inside multiple line comment in PHP
body: <pre class="lang-js prettyprint-override"><code>&lt;?php
  /*
      /* this is a comment */
  */
  ?&gt;
  </code></pre>
  <p>PHP returns &quot;syntax error&quot;... Is this just a completely wrong way to use multiple line comment?</p>
  <p>Sometimes I need to comment out a big block of code for testing, and this block contains hundreds of lines and there are many multiple line comments inside.</p>
  <p>What's the best way to comment out this big block? Besides removing it temporarily from the file?</p>