<?php
$information = <<<INFO
Name: John Smith
Address: 123 Main St
City: Springville, CA
INFO;
echo $information;
?>
Result:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_SL on line 3
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35answers:
3
A:
Try the following:
<?php
$information = <<<EOS
Hello world!
EOS;
echo $information;
?>
Richard Cook
2010-09-17 23:45:02
Why the down-vote? The answer seems to be correct, albeit with no *explanation* of what the error *was*, or might've been. Incidentally, @Richard Cook, here's a pretty awesome guide (from @Jon Skeet) to answering questions. :)
David Thomas
2010-09-17 23:50:31
I did wonder about that myself. I will beef up my answers a little more in the future!
Richard Cook
2010-09-17 23:52:20
It's confusing. It might suggest that somehow `INFO` cannot be used as heredoc delimiter or something like that...
Crozin
2010-09-17 23:53:14
I hadn't thought of that. Thanks for comment.
Richard Cook
2010-09-17 23:54:32
Not my DV, but your answer doesn't show whitespace, and the problem with the code was bad placement of whitespace.
Peter Ajtai
2010-09-17 23:56:31
+2
A:
The parser is complaining because you have whitespace after the angled brackets declaring a heredoc. You need to make sure you're actually following the heredoc syntax, which you can find on the PHP Manual site (specifically: http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php#language.types.string.syntax.heredoc).
<?php
$information = <<<ENDHEREDOC
this is my text
ENDHEREDOC;
echo $information;
Robert Elwell
2010-09-17 23:46:04
A:
I've just edited your question and fixed invalid formatting (SO is using Markdown). I found out that there is a space character after <<<INFO - that causes the error.
Delete that space and everything should work fine... well - it has to works fine.
Crozin
2010-09-17 23:47:55