[ciapug] heredoc

Tue Mar 14 07:15:17 CST 2006

Have you tried

$webPageContent  = <<<HTML
....
HTML

$webPage->addContent($webPageContent);

Jerry

On Mar 13, 2006, at 2:53 PM, Chris Van Cleve wrote:

> Say I have the following code which inserts content into a web page  
> through a class:
>
> // Add something to the body of the page
> $webPage->addContent("
>     <h1>Administration Menu</h1>
>     <dl>
>     	<dt><a href='ticker.php'>Headline Ticker Management</a></dt>
>     		<dd>View, Add, Edit, Delete items for the Headline Ticker</dd>
>     	<dt><a href='news.php'>News Management</a></dt>
>     		<dd>View, Add, Edit, Delete, Publish items for departmental  
> and company-wide news</dd>
>     	<dt><a href='#'>Event Management</a></dt>
>     		<dd>View, Add, Edit, Delete items from the company-wide  
> calendar of events</dd>
>     </dl>
>     " );
>
> But I want to use heredoc syntax instead of the long quoted string.  
> When I try this:
>
> // Add something to the body of the page
> $webPage->addContent(<<<HTML
>     <h1>Administration Menu</h1>
>     <dl>
>     	<dt><a href='ticker.php'>Headline Ticker Management</a></dt>
>     		<dd>View, Add, Edit, Delete items for the Headline Ticker</dd>
>     	<dt><a href='news.php'>News Management</a></dt>
>     		<dd>View, Add, Edit, Delete, Publish items for departmental  
> and company-wide news</dd>
>     	<dt><a href='#'>Event Management</a></dt>
>     		<dd>View, Add, Edit, Delete items from the company-wide  
> calendar of events</dd>
>     </dl>
> HTML;
>      );
>
> It breaks. This is the only situation I've come across where I  
> can't get heredoc to work. Granted I haven't spent a great deal of  
> energy on solving this because it's an issue of convenience, but  
> before I got troughing the php.net comments I thought I would see  
> if someone here had some quick insight for me.
>
> Chris VC
>
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