Vim, Cygwin, MySQL & Zsh Tips » hereis document http://zzapper.co.uk Tue, 13 Jul 2010 22:45:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Hereis Document for PHP: Great for Generation of HTML http://zzapper.co.uk/hereis-document-for-php-great-for-generation-of-html/ http://zzapper.co.uk/hereis-document-for-php-great-for-generation-of-html/#comments Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:28:34 +0000 admin http://zzapper.co.uk/?p=47 The great thing about hereis documents is that in most cases you don't have to backslash quotes, your "html" thus retains its visibility
echo <<<__HTML__
<li><a href=”$pressdir$file”>$file</a>
__HTML__;

$html.= <<<__HTML__
<li><a href=”$pressdir$file”>$file</a>
__HTML__;

return <<<__HTML__
<li><a href=”$pressdir$file”>$file</a>
__HTML__;

it can also cope with arrays if you use the following syntax ${my_array['postcode']}

return <<<__HTML__
<li><a href=”$multimap_url${my_array['postcode']}”>${my_array['postcode']}</a>
__HTML__;

I see so much ugly tangled php/javascript/html/css code which could be tidied up with the PHP Hereis Document

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