Any info on print <<<BLOCK...BLOCK;

[cranjled]

I like to use single quotes when echoing something so I don't have to look at the backslashes in HTML attributes. I recently came across this method of doing it, which seems to eliminate the echo statments, single-quotes, and backslashes...and was wondering if this is deprecated, not fully supported or what's the story on it?

Any insight is appreciated,

Thanks

print <<<BLOCK
<form method="post" action="{$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']}">
<input type="text" name="SomeVar" value="{$_POST['someVar']}" />
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="submit" />
</form>
BLOCK;

[launchcode]

It's called the heredoc method. Personally I would use echo <<<MARKER and not print, but it doesn't matter too much.

You can find plenty of info on heredoc in the php manual, specifically in the strings section.

It is most certainly not depreciated (and I doubt ever will be) and is fully supported by all versions of PHP since.. well.. heck of a long time!

Cheers,

Rich

[cranjled]

Thanks...very helpful.

[Amorya]

I found it dead useful to catch cpanel output in PHP - cpanel gets parsed first and you can never be sure whether there'll be quotes in it.

Amorya