Re: Nowdocs revised

On 16/08/07, Gwynne Raskind <gwynne@wanderingknights.org> wrote: > On Aug 15, 2007, at 2:00 PM, Christopher Jones wrote: > > Did you get any further with merging this? It would help users of > > the XQuery language. > > > > If I understand your intent, I would be able to change the code > > fragment > > below to use a nowdoc, and not have to escape the XQuery $i variables. > > > > Chris > > > > > > <?php > > > > $c = oci_connect("hr", "hrpwd", "localhost/orcl"); > > > > $xq = <<<END > > select column_value > > from xmltable('for \$i in ora:view("locations") return \$i') > > END; > > > > $s = oci_parse($c, $xq); > > oci_execute($s); > > while ($row = oci_fetch_row($s)) > > var_dump($row); > > ?> > > I didn't get any further, no :(. The decision of whether to merge the > nowdocs patch is out of my hands now, since I don't have source > karma. However, since the main thing standing in the way of its > implementation was concern over the usefulness, your comment is very > helpful, and I'd like to open the topic for discussion again on the > list, if no one out there has any objection :) Being able to code templates within PHP rather than as an external file without any escaping or variable expansion _is_ useful. -- ----- Richard Quadling Zend Certified Engineer : http://zend.com/zce.php?c=ZEND002498&r=213474731 "Standing on the shoulders of some very clever giants!"