On Mon, 2002-02-04 at 10:32, Peter J. Schoenster wrote:
> Hi
>
> If I use $snippet = ""; and escape the quotes in the block then it
> works. But if I use it as is below, it fails with no useful error
> message. Why?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Peter
This function cut-and-pasted? If so, then you may have fallen prey
to one of the uglier little features of heredocs: you cannot have
anything except a newline following the semicolon after the closing
delimiter. In this case, you seem to have some spaces there:
> function GetAddCommentSnippet($args) {
> $topic_id = $args[id];
> $return_page = $args[return_page];
>
> $snippet = <<<EOS
> <form action="$this->this_cgi" method="post">
> <br>Your First Name: <input type="text" name="FirstName" value="">
> <br>Your Last Name: <input type="text" name="LastName" value="">
> <br>Your Email Address: <input type="text" name="EmailAddress" value="">
> <br>Your Comments:
> <br>
> <textarea cols="40" rows="4" name="Comments"></textarea>
> <br>
> <input type="submit" value="submit now">
> <input type="hidden" name="action" value="AddComment">
> <input type="hidden" name="response_to_id" value="$topic_id">
> <input type="hidden" name="r" value="$return_page">
> </form>
> EOS;
^^^^
...here are the spaces. There is more information in the manual:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php#language.types.string.syntax.heredoc
However, just so you know, you should quote 'id' and 'return_page'
in the first two lines of the function. If you turn up
error_reporting(), you'll get this:
Notice: Use of undefined constant id - assumed 'id' in
/path/to/script.html on line 19
Notice: Use of undefined constant return_page - assumed
'return_page' in /path/to/script.html on line 20
There is more information about this at:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.array.php#language.types.array.donts
(Sorry if the URLs wrap.)
Cheers,
Torben
>
> return $snippet;
>
>
> } // END GetAddCommentSnippet
>
>
> ---------------------------
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> away".
> -- Philip K. Dick
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