AFAIK, it has been in PHP since the beginning of PHP4. I could be wrong, but I think it was one of the new features added when 4.0 came out. Here is a little reference material for you on it.
http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php#language.types.string.syntax.heredoc Without seeing a code snippet, I can't tell you what your doing wrong. Probably something simple, but hopefully the document above will help you. Another resource which gives a decent guide to HEREDOC's is the fairly new book "Core PHP Programming Third Edition". It's been a while since I read it, but if memory serves it has atleast a page or two on it's usage. I also highly recommend that book anyway to any PHP programmer, beginner all the way to highly advanced. I thought I knew almost everything about PHP and even I still learned about a new function or two from the book. Very worthwhile. Jeremy On Thu, 2003-12-25 at 12:44, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm running PHP version 4.3.0 on a Macintosh PowerBook with OS 10.2.1, > doing some PHP tutorial exercises. And I've run across something I haven't > seen before in the sample code I'm seeing: > > print <<<HERE > [multiple lines of code] > HERE; > > Now, from what I've read, it seems that the point of "<<<HERE ... HERE;" is > to execute all the code between the two "HEREs". > > But when I run this thru my browsers--Netscape 7.02 and IE 5.2--I get the > following error message: > > Parse error: parse error, unexpected $ in [path to file] [line number] > > Is this "<<<HERE ... HERE;" new to PHP sometime after version 4.3.0, and > I'm just out of luck unless I upgrade? > > Thank you. > > Steve Tiano > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > mail2web - Check your email from the web at > http://mail2web.com/ . -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
