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Does Php have anything similiar to Perl's $string = <<END_OF_DATA ...(some text over multiple lines)... END_OF_DATA?
Mar 15th, 2008 21:18
dman, ha mo, Cinley Rodick, Philip Olson, Dave Kingdon, Greg Billock, Okke Tijhuis, Jon Herman, http://www.ttnr.org
PHP supports HERE doc's in PHP 4. But in PHP you use <<< instead of <<
so for example:
<?php
$str = <<<EOD
Example of string
spanning multiple lines
using heredoc syntax.
EOD;
print $str;
?>
Note that it's very important to not have trailing whitespace after the
<<<EOD or EOD; in our above examples otherwise you'll get a parse
error! Also, the following is perfectly legal and differs with HEREDOC
in that you still have to worry about quotes inside quotes:
$str = "
Example of string
spanning multiple lines
using PHP-string syntax.
";
Because PHP embeds in HTML so nicely often times one will break out of
PHP mode into HTML mode. Something like:
<?php
if ($foo) {
?>
<table>
<tr>
<td>Hi</td>
<td>Friend</td>
</tr>
</table>
<?php
}
?>
More can be read about HERE doc in the manual:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php