Heredoc and Ternaries. Mixable?

[davidjam]

Hi friendly PHPers!

I was wondering if it is possible to include ternary constructs (or even function calls) within a HEREDOC. For instance:

echo <<<EOD
.. blah blah ..
($style ? $style : <link ..>)
.. blah blah ..
EOD;

Anyone?

[drew010]

no, you cant use a ternary op in heredoc, neither can you use if, switch, or loop constructs, and you cant make function calls. you cant assign to variables either. it just allows for easy output of text with both variables, newlines, double quotes, in a syntax that one may type in a text document or something similar.

[Weedpacket]

Think of heredoc-quoted strings as behaving just like double-quoted strings - with custom quotes; the same rules about what gets interpreted how apply to both.

[davidjam]

except perhaps the fact that you can't concat out of them... ??

... thanks guys! 🙂