Are there "Here" documents for PHP?

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April 10th, 2000, 12:42 AM

wdn2000

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Hi,

I'm new to PHP, so maybe I've simply
overlooked the obvious, but I was wondering
if PHP supports "Here" documents (like perl,
or UNIX shell). Any help would be greatly
appreciated! I hate having to all the
quotes in my HTML. =)

Scott

April 10th, 2000, 09:27 PM

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I have no idea what you mean by "Here"-documents.. But I hope "having to " ment something even close to this:

In perl (it's been some time so forgive me for minor errors

:
print "Bla?";
print <<EOF
<html>blablahHTML here
<a href="http://your_link_here">Hmm.</a>
</html>
EOF

In PHP:
print "Bla?";
?><html>blablahHTML here
<a href="http://your_link_here">Hmm.</a>
</html>
<?

April 11th, 2000, 01:05 PM

wdn2000

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It looks like you're saying that if I want
to have large chunks of HTML code without
having to the quotes, I should just put
the HTML outside of the <? ?> tags.

There are two reasons that I wanted to have
all of my HTML within the PHP.

(1) I believe that my pages will execute
faster if they are entirely contained within
the PHP tags (rather than switching back
and forth)

(2) In perl you can embed variables in the
HTML contained in a Here document and I was
hoping that PHP could do the same.

Thanks for your help. =)

Scott

April 12th, 2000, 07:01 PM

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You can do (almost like in perl) templates like this:

while($row=something("

")) {
<?
Name: <? echo $row["name"] ?> 
Address: <? echo $row["address"] ?> 

?>
}

April 12th, 2000, 08:11 PM

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here

<<<ENDH

endh can be any combination of characters which are not in the here document.

ENDH;

April 13th, 2000, 04:20 AM

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believe it or believe it not - you code gets parsed faster if you keep your <?php to a minimum - jumping in and out of php does not make things any slower - on larger files just the opposite.

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Simon Wheeler
FirePages -DHTML/PHP/MySQL

April 13th, 2000, 11:52 AM

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by firepages:
believe it or believe it not - you code gets parsed faster if you keep your <?php to a minimum - jumping in and out of php does not make things any slower - on larger files just the opposite.
[/quote]

That's what I get for listening to those
NT/ASP guys! Thanks for the tip.

Scott

April 13th, 2000, 11:54 AM

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by geosync:
here

<<<ENDH

endh can be any combination of characters which are not in the here document.

ENDH;[/quote]

Thanks! I'll give it a try.

Scott

Are there "Here" documents for PHP?

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