While reviewing PHP, I just discovered two new ways to handle strings.The heredoc and nowdoc.
Heredoc behaves like a double-quoted string and values inside are being parsed. You can use heredoc for embedding HTML codes.
sample:
<?php
$strString=<<< EOS
some strings
another line
EOS;
echo $strString;
?>
output:
some strings another line
the output is printed in 1 line because i didn't put a < br > in the sample codes.
Nowdoc behaves like single-quoted strings and no parsing is done inside a nowdoc.Nowdoc is good for embedding PHP code or other large blocks of text without the need for escaping.
sample:
<?php
$name="mel";
$month=2;
echo <<<'EOS'
Hi my name is $name.
My blog is $month months old.
EOS;
?>
output:
Hi my name is $name.
My blog is $month months old.
For further reading please visit http://php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php
