What is the error <<<END_OF_TEXT..END_OF_TEXT;

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December 23rd, 2012, 06:35 PM

shawnhbk

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What is the error <<<END_OF_TEXT..END_OF_TEXT;

Why can't i get text to display in the select tag?

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE, expecting T_STRING or T_VARIABLE or T_NUM_STRING in /home/shawnhbk/public_html/az/notes/addcode.php on line 22

PHP Code:


		
			
if ($_POST['title'] == "")

    {//haven't seen the form, so show it

    $display_block = <<<END_OF_TEXT

    <form method="post" action="$_SERVER[PHP_SELF]">

    

    



  



 <p>

 <select name="language">

 

$query="SELECT DISTINCT language FROM codes";

if ($result = $mysqli->query($query)) {

/* fetch object array */

while ($row = $result->fetch_assoc()) {

$language=$row['language'];



echo("<option value="$language">$language</option>");



}  $result->close();

</select>



   <p><label for="title">title</label><br/>

    <input type="text" name="title">



   <p><textarea class="ckeditor" rows="4" cols="50"  name="code" ></textarea>



    <button type="submit" name="submit" value="send">Add Entry</button>

    </form>

 END_OF_TEXT;

}

December 23rd, 2012, 06:56 PM

Jacques1

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Hi,

this code makes no sense whatsoever. The heredoc covers almost your whole code, while you have PHP and HTML randomly mixed. What is this supposed to do??

December 23rd, 2012, 07:02 PM

shawnhbk

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Jacques1

Hi,

this code makes no sense whatsoever. The heredoc covers almost your whole code, while you have PHP and HTML randomly mixed. What is this supposed to do??

I thought you can use php inside heredoc that was the whole purpose of it wasnt it?

December 23rd, 2012, 07:07 PM

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Um, no? Where did you read that? And how would that even work?

A heredoc works exactly like a double quoted string -- the only difference is that you don't have to escape double quotes. So you can insert variables and escape sequences (newlines etc.), but that's it. Anything else is interpreted as literal characters.

December 23rd, 2012, 07:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Jacques1

got it thanks

December 23rd, 2012, 07:15 PM

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so how would i put all this php code inside a variable can you point me in the right direction?

December 23rd, 2012, 07:25 PM

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I don't even understand what you're trying to do. What do you mean by "putting PHP code into a variable"?

Isn't this simply about outputting HTML strings?

PHP Code:


		
			
if ($_POST['title'] == "") 

{    //haven't seen the form, so show it

    echo "

        <form method='post' action='$_SERVER[PHP_SELF]'> 

            <p> 

            <select name='language'>

    ";

    ...

}

What is the error <<<END_OF_TEXT..END_OF_TEXT;

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