echo <<< END

[Anon]

Can anybody tell me what the following code does

echo <<< END

.
.
. some html code
.
.

END;

What does END do? What does <<< do?

Thank you in advance!

[Anon]

See the comments under http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.print.php

[hessian]

It is sending all input to echo until it gets to END. It is just printing the "some html code" out.

[jordan]

In the comments for print() in the manual:

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PHP 4 now allows the use of PRINT <<<EOF, much the same way as PERL's PRINT EOF>>. When using this option there is no need to escape characters such as quotes. This is very useful for printing large amounts of HTML code e.g.

<pre>
print <<<EOF
<pre_tag here>
This is "quoted text"
More quoted stuff "here"
</pre_tag here>

EOF;
</pre>

Make sure not to indent the EOF; statement as this will cause parsing errors.

Basically I think you can use anything in place of EOF or END, so long as they match. Make sense?