Re: "Here Document" function AWOL

http://www.php.net/manual/html/language.types.string.html#AEN2504 what you wrote looks correct...just make sure you have no trailing whitespace on the $body = <<<EOQ line (hit return right after the q) same with EOQ; it has to be on a line by itself... best of luck jack Kristofer Widholm wrote: > > Dear PHPers. I have tried to get the "Here Document" functionality to > work, all to no avail. > > I am writing the following code: > $body = <<<EOQ > ....Lots of HTML stuff here > Lines and Lines and lines of it. > > .... > all the way to > EOQ; > > I get a parse error on the first line where I declare the variable. I > have tried it in several different ways, such as > $body= > <<<EOQ > > But I get parser errors every time. > > My PHP version is 4.0.2 > > Anyone know when Here Documents were first implemented in PHP > (version number)? Do I need to set GPC or magic-quotes to a certain > value at runtime for this to work? > > I could not find "here document" even MENTIONED on the entire php > site. Nor could I find it in the mailing list archives. I did find > out about it at the Zend tutorial on strings, and have seen it in a > script at px.sklar. > > Kristofer > -- > ______________________________________ > > Kristofer Widholm > Web Pharmacy > webpharmacy@brokenhill.net > 191 Grand Street, Brooklyn NY 11211 > 718.599.4893 > ______________________________________ > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net