is "EOFORMPAGE" simply not used?

am 13.05.2005 10:33:23 von pwiegers

Hi,

I'm developing a website in PHP - it's my first one... :-)
Somewhere (I'm not sure where) I've come up with the function:
"EOFORMPAGE". I use it like this:

$content = <<< EOFORMPAGE

test

$test

EOFORMPAGE;

This enables me to use straigt HTML, put in in a variable ($content in
this case), and add the content of the variable $test in this case as
well. This works very good. It is especcially usefull when working
with JS, as I'm not limited by problems with quotes.

My concern: I cannot find another example of this function
"EOFORMPAGE" /at all/. Is it not used? Frowned upon? Depricated? Can
someone help me out on this one, as I would not like to write code
that is considered 'bad'.

thanks,

Paul

Re: is "EOFORMPAGE" simply not used?

am 13.05.2005 10:56:48 von Micha

pwiegers@gmail.com (pwiegers@wms.to) wrote in
news:7a2a5af3.0505130033.f35d513@posting.google.com:

> Hi,
>
> I'm developing a website in PHP - it's my first one... :-)
> Somewhere (I'm not sure where) I've come up with the function:
> "EOFORMPAGE". I use it like this:
>
> $content = <<< EOFORMPAGE
>

>
>
>
>

test

$test

> EOFORMPAGE;
>
> This enables me to use straigt HTML, put in in a variable ($content in
> this case), and add the content of the variable $test in this case as
> well. This works very good. It is especcially usefull when working
> with JS, as I'm not limited by problems with quotes.
>
> My concern: I cannot find another example of this function
> "EOFORMPAGE" /at all/. Is it not used? Frowned upon? Depricated? Can
> someone help me out on this one, as I would not like to write code
> that is considered 'bad'.
>
> thanks,
>
> Paul
>

it's not a function, but a differnet syntax to write down strings.

it's called heredoc syntax, valid from php4 onwards, details in the
manual.

micha

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Re: is "EOFORMPAGE" simply not used?

am 13.05.2005 14:39:35 von pwiegers

Micha

> it's not a function, but a differnet syntax to write down strings.
>
> it's called heredoc syntax, valid from php4 onwards, details in the
> manual.

Micha,

thanx a million! This is de information I was searching for. If you
don't know how something is called, it can get hard to find something.
:-)

Paul