At 16:56 01.03.2003, Daniel R. Hansen said:
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>Can anyone tell me if it is possible (and how) to use defined constants
>within "here document" content? I've not been successful finding anything
>on this in the online docs.
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You simply could have tried it - it's trivial.
The answer: no, you cannot have a constant within a string, be it heredoc
or quoted. A constant must always reside on "native code level".
However you can easily concatenate strings and heredocs - both of the
examples below work correctly:
define('A_CONSTANT', 1);
$text1 = <<<EOT
This heredoc text contains the constant A_CONSTANT (
EOT
. A_CONSTANT . <<< EOT
) outside the heredoc construct...
EOT;
$text2 = "This quoted text contains the constant A_CONSTANT (" .
A_CONSTANT .
") outside the string quotes...";
echo "$text1<br />$text2";
Output:
This heredoc text contains the constant A_CONSTANT (1) outside the heredoc
construct...
This quoted text contains the constant A_CONSTANT (1) outside the string
quotes...
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