On Saturday 11 July 2009 15:23:55 tedd wrote:
> At 8:34 PM -0400 7/10/09, Daniel Brown wrote:
> >On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 20:25, Govinda<govinda.webdnatalk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> How do I get
> >> basename(__FILE__)
> >> or
> >> htmlentities($somevar)
> >> to be evaluated in a heredoc?
> >
> > You don't. Instead, you have to store the output from those in a
> >variable (or array), then place it into the HEREDOC it.
> >
> ><?php
> >$somevar = htmlentities($somevar);
> >$filedata = array('name' => basename(__FILE__), 'size' =>
> > filesize(__FILE__));
> >
> >$html =<<<HTML
> ><b>File Name:</b> {$filedata['name']}<br />
> ><b>File Size:</b> {$filedata['size']}<br />
> >
> ><b>\$somevar</b>: {$somevar}<br />
> >
> >HTML;
> >
> >echo $html;
> >?>
>
> Daniel:
>
> Why the braces?
>
> Cheers,
>
> tedd
>
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The braces ensure that PHP doesn't stop parsing the variable name once it
reaches the [. By default, it will only match a variable name up to the [
sign, so you couldn't access arrays without the braces.
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Thanks,
Ash
http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
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