note 10192 deleted from function.echo by jeroen

Echo and here-doc can be very handy, but you need to know two important things on top of from syntax. Follow this basic syntax... echo <<<EOT My name is $name. My second child's name is {$children[2]['name']}. EOT; Two important things to note: (1) Whitespace after "echo <<<EOT" can lead to an error like this: ...expecting ','' or ';''... So it's important to start a new line DIRECTLY after the first EOT. (2) Placing the terminating EOT on any column other than the very first of a line can yield errors reported on lines that are really fine... the error may look like this: ...parse error, expecting T_STRING' or T_VARIABLE' or... So it's also important to put EOT at the very beginning of a line. Take a look at http://www.php.net/manual/html/language.types.string.html#AEN2504 for more information.