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Does Php have anything similiar to Perl's $string = <<END_OF_DATA ...(some text over multiple lines)... END_OF_DATA?

Mar 15th, 2008 21:18
dman, ha mo, Cinley Rodick, Philip Olson, Dave Kingdon, Greg Billock, Okke Tijhuis, Jon Herman, http://www.ttnr.org

PHP supports HERE doc's in PHP 4.  But in PHP you use <<< instead of << 
so for example:

<?php
$str = <<<EOD
Example of string
spanning multiple lines
using heredoc syntax.
EOD;

print $str;
?>

Note that it's very important to not have trailing whitespace after the 
<<<EOD or EOD; in our above examples otherwise you'll get a parse 
error!  Also, the following is perfectly legal and differs with HEREDOC 
in that you still have to worry about quotes inside quotes:

$str = "
Example of string
spanning multiple lines
using PHP-string syntax.
";

Because PHP embeds in HTML so nicely often times one will break out of 
PHP mode into HTML mode.  Something like:

<?php
if ($foo) {
?>
<table>
 <tr>
  <td>Hi</td>
  <td>Friend</td>
 </tr>
</table>
<?php
}
?>

More can be read about HERE doc in the manual:

    http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php