printing multiple lines

Anon

I want to print multiple lines without have to worry about using single quotes instead of double...for example

print"<body>
<table border='1' bordercolor='red'>
<tr><td>$variable</td></tr>
</table>";

on separate lines works fine, but can I print a bunch of lines like the above and have it work still using double quotes, like this

print"<body>
<table border="1"bordercolor="red"
<tr><td>$variable</td></tr>
</table>";

Perl has a way of doing it by giving the block of code a name and then printing it all at once. I could end my php code using the ?> take but I don't want to because I want to insert alot of variables in the code.

Drew

Anon

in the php manual, read about escaping quotes...

print "<body><table border=\"1\" bordercolor=\"red\"><tr><td>$var</td></tr></table>";

-g

Anon

Oh, by the way I'd rather not escape all the quotes because it makes the everything unreadable..there has got to be a way to print blocks of html code, right?

Anon

I'd still recommend jumping out of the PHP. After all, it's not that much work to write things like this:

...right?

Anon

FYI The perl code that does this function looks like this:

print <<INTROHTML;

all you html code goes here and you don't have to escape double quotes

INTROHTML;
}

Anon

..except that I have tons of variables to stick into and out of the code. I am trying to avoid that. Check out my post about how Perl does this...

Anon

yes, php does not have that feature you may do this though...

say we have file index.php3
inside...

just jump out of php as Björn Brändewall said.

Anon

Yes, I have been doing that, I guess I was hoping there was a better way...like the way that Perl does it...but I guess there isn't, and that answers my question...thanks for replying to the post.

Anon

What you're looking for is called "here docs", and they are supported by php 4. You have to use <<< instead of <<, can't remember why it was done that way.

print <<< EOF

<table><td width="whatever">$var</td> . . . .

EOF

Anon

I know, but there's no equivalent to that in PHP.
I tore my hear at that, too, for a while.
<?php escaping ?> is the next best thing. ^_

Anon

check out the last message on the next thread, there is an equivalent in PHP4...its cool!