Posted by Jason Barnett on 01/21/05 16:53

Tim Burgan wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
> I've just tried using heredocs [1] for the first time, but I am
> receiving parse errors always on the very last line of my document.
>
> The error is caused by my heredocs. Am I using it correctly? When I
> replaced the heredoc with a string.. everything worked again.
>
> Here's my code with heredocs (and the lines before and after for context):
>
> /* Query the database */
> $db_sql = <<<SQL
>
> SELECT id, expiry, permissions
> FROM tblStudents
> UNION ALL
> SELECT id, expiry, permissions
> FROM tblStaff;
>

Heredoc is a strict format. the SQL; *must* be at the very beginning of
the line, so if you simply remove the whitespace before it you should be
fine.

> SQL;

SQL;

> $rs = $db_connection->execute($db_sql);
>
>
....
>
>
> Thanks
> Tim


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