What steps will reproduce the problem? 1. open a .php file 2. copy int it:

// this shouldn't break everything function('observe')

What is the expected output? What do you see instead? The // doesn't comment correctly, including allowing the single quote to escape the comment.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system? uploaded on May 22, 2007, emacs

Please provide any additional information below.

ok, so if you insert:

(modify-syntax-entry ?\/ "< 124b" php-mode-syntax-table)

on line 2582 it seems to work.

i'm thinking that it's because line 2579 looks like this:

(modify-syntax-entry ?\/ ". 1456" php-mode-syntax-table)

specifically, the ' ?\/ ". 1456" ' part of it seems to define a forward slash as punctuation '.' instead of as a comment '< b'

I have no idea what i'm doing though, so use the attached modified file at your own risk.

quodlibetor's fix works for me; thanks!

Been trying to figure out how to fix this exact problem for months; wonder why I missed it on EmacsWiki.