Bug #68033 [Nab]: nowdoc,heredoc doesn't work with .=

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=68033&edit=1 ID: 68033 Updated by: aharvey@php.net Reported by: jmichae3 at yahoo dot com Summary: nowdoc,heredoc doesn't work with .= Status: Not a bug Type: Bug Package: Scripting Engine problem Operating System: win7ult64sp1retail PHP Version: 5.6.0 Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: That's a nowdoc: they don't interpolate, so that's the expected output. Note the difference between <<<EOT (heredoc; does interpolate) and <<<'EOT' (nowdoc; does not interpolate). Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2014-09-17 22:52:28] jmichae3 at yahoo dot com correction to that last statement, multiline "" strings do work. not sure what I was seeing. d:\www\Jesusnjim>php <?php $s=5; $t=<<<'EOT' abc${'s'}def$s EOT; echo $t; ?> ^Z abc${'s'}def$s this is what I am talking about, I suppose I should submit another bug report for this one? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2014-09-17 22:34:04] jmicha3 at yahoo dot com ${'http_prefix'} within the properly formatted nowdoc is not being expanded. it's broken. please fix. thanks. if it's at all possible, could the EOT (whatever used) for heredoc, nowdoc please work for beyond just the beginning of a line? I need most of those strings to end with some indentation. thanks. in fact, I will make it a feature request if it's not already one. there may be lexer reasons for this, but I need this feature. "" doesn't do this sort of thing anymore, it used to, but no longer, that's broken, no longer works with strings like $s="abc def ghi "; ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2014-09-17 05:09:37] requinix@php.net Thank you for taking the time to write to us, but this is not a bug. Please double-check the documentation available at http://www.php.net/manual/ and the instructions on how to report a bug at http://bugs.php.net/how-to-report.php http://php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php#language.types.string.syntax.heredoc Big red warning. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2014-09-17 05:08:06] jmichae3 at yahoo dot com Description: ------------ in my menu generation code (not this script, but similar, php acts differently. instead of generating an error (it should not), it fails silently and appends the following PHP source code into the string in addition to the string content itself, up to a certain point. the HTML output from PHP from the pastebin code ends up being http://pastebin.com/78Mx80V2 $s .= printbreadcrumbsmenu($xmlArray, $filepath, /*array('LI','USER','USERS','VISITOR','VISITORS'), */true); $s .= printbreadcrumbsmenu($xmlArray, $filepath, /*array('MODERATOR','MODERATORS'), */false); $s .= printbreadcrumbsmenu($xmlArray, $filepath, /*array('ADMIN','ADMINS','ADMINISTRATOR','ADMINISTRATORS'), */false); $s .= printbreadcrumbsmenu($xmlArray, $filepath, /*array('LEADERSHIP','LEADERS','LEADER'), */false); $s .= " </div>\n"; $s .= <<<'EOT' and EOT; if ((bool)$isxhtml) { $s .= $menuhelptextx; } else { $s .= $menuhelptext; } $s .= <<<'EOT' should not be there in the generated HTML source, those are php functions. it seems like php is ignoring the EOT; Test script: --------------- <?php $s=""; $s.= <<<'EOT' this is <html lang='en'> <title>a title</title> EOT; echo $s; ?> http://pastebin.com/fE5CaVEE for the one mentioned in Description. Expected result: ---------------- should follow the manual in how it works. should not work just for initialization only but for concatenation, and echo as well, any place where you can use a string. expected HTML output: http://pastebin.com/SYQ4GSWG Actual result: -------------- EOT; ignored and therefore php source code is included into the string including the EOT; (until when?) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=68033&edit=1