Re: here document

> No, absolutely not. I merely feel that their existence is not > sufficient reason to argue against the use of here docs, which was > implied by someone else. And I did mention that it was a contrived > example. The original poster has posited that here docs were > completely unnecessary in PHP. I'm just demonstrating that for some > (rather common) situations, it may indeed be the cleanest (subjective) > solution. > > As I said before, YMMV. > > If anyone wants to continue, we should prolly do it off list. :) I > sorta get the feeling this conversation is only interesting to the > four of us anymore. ;) > > > Cheers, > > Torben Please don't put words in my mouth. I was not aware of the presence of here documentation in PHP, and my statements were based on that assumption. It certainly may be the cleanest solution for printing out a few lines of HTML with interpolated variables -- or for printing out successive variables amidst HTML. For one single variable in the midst of a bunch of HTML, <?php echo $var ?> isn't that bad. As for not using <?, I see your point, but I have full control over my server, and I'm not writing for anyone else. If someone actually wanted to use my code (gasp), I'd be glad to convert it all to <?php with a simple Perl prog. Dean.