Posted by bill on 12/19/06 16:15

Thanks to those that taught me to use heredoc to embed html in
php. I don't want to start the html in php vs php in html
discussion again.,

heredoc works a treat for that which I am doing except:
In the generated html I have a number of checkboxes. I fill
in the checkboxes from a boolean value in a mySQL table. To make
this easier I use a function that takes the boolean and return
either 'checked' or ''. This worked well when I was
concatenating the html into a variable rather than using heredoc,
but it was really messy.

Short, simple question: is there anyway to get php to evaluate a
function while in a heredoc block ?

I know I could assign the results of using the function to
variables outside of the heredoc block or I could break the block
for the function, but the first is cumbersome and the second gets
rid of the clarity of the heredoc approach.

bill

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