Question

So, in Perl and PHP, you can produce a block of text using a number of the “<” symbols:
Perl:

return <<TEXT;
    <a href=$foo>Perl interpolates this properly</a>
TEXT

PHP:

return <<<TEXT
    <a href=$bar>PHP does not interpolate this...</a>
TEXT;

So, my question is, is there a way to (cleanly) do this in PHP like in Perl?
I have tried <?...?> and <?php...?>, but they do the same thing…
Also, this is really a subset of the entire block of text… otherwise I would just build the string.

Answer 1

Yes, it’s called heredoc syntax:

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

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