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Posted by micha on 05/13/05 11:56
pwiegers@gmail.com (pwiegers@wms.to) wrote in
news:7a2a5af3.0505130033.f35d513@posting.google.com:
> Hi,
>
> I'm developing a website in PHP - it's my first one... :-)
> Somewhere (I'm not sure where) I've come up with the function:
> "EOFORMPAGE". I use it like this:
>
> $content = <<< EOFORMPAGE
> <table border=1>
> <tr>
> <td><b>test</b></td><td>$test</td>
> </tr>
> </table>
> EOFORMPAGE;
>
> This enables me to use straigt HTML, put in in a variable ($content in
> this case), and add the content of the variable $test in this case as
> well. This works very good. It is especcially usefull when working
> with JS, as I'm not limited by problems with quotes.
>
> My concern: I cannot find another example of this function
> "EOFORMPAGE" /at all/. Is it not used? Frowned upon? Depricated? Can
> someone help me out on this one, as I would not like to write code
> that is considered 'bad'.
>
> thanks,
>
> Paul
>
it's not a function, but a differnet syntax to write down strings.
it's called heredoc syntax, valid from php4 onwards, details in the
manual.
micha
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