note 62291 added to language.types.string

The Heredoc (<<<) syntax could be a solution to a problem I had, but it has a bit of a 'bug' (most probably because it was not intended to be used in the way I did). In switching a site from HTML to PHP, I wanted to transform blocks of text, in retaining their WYSWYG editor 'editibility,' into a variable that would be called in a template itself called later in the page, in a form something like this: <?php $content = <<<CONTENT ?> <table width="100%"> <tr> <td> Hominy hominy hominy hominy... </td> </tr> </table> <?php CONTENT; ?> ...this works, but with one minor glitch: there appears at the beginning, before the <table>, an extra "?>". ---- Server IP: 217.174.203.10 Probable Submitter: 81.65.112.73 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+62291 Delete: added to the manual -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+62291&report=yes&reason=added+to+the+manual Delete: bad code -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+62291&report=yes&reason=bad+code Delete: spam -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+62291&report=yes&reason=spam Delete: useless -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+62291&report=yes&reason=useless Delete: non-english -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+62291&report=yes&reason=non-english Delete: already in docs -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+62291&report=yes&reason=already+in+docs Delete: other reasons -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+62291&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+62291&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php