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EOD in other words.....

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ssmkhize

EOD in other words.....
October 16, 2009 01:47PM

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Could anyone explain an alternative understanding of the EOD tag..... I tried and tried but it still just won't dawn on me.... Thanks in advance

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Mac

Re: EOD in other words.....
October 16, 2009 02:00PM

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Did you read from page 111 in the handbook? That is about as best as it can be explained?

It is also called HEREDOC

Heredoc text behaves just like a double-quoted string, without the double quotes

// here is a string
$howdy= "Howzit my china! Are you well?
Come visit me!";

//here it is heredco style
$howdy =
<<<EOD
Howzit my china! Are you well?
Come visit me!
EOD;

Why use it?
Heredoc is rarely used as the day by day usage is more complicated as creating strings with quotes or double quotes.
So forget about it for now - but now about it.