Just starting out PHP learning from a book (Please help answer why this wont work)

Glubit

It keeps coming up as Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_SL in C:\wamp\www\first.php on line 5

I read in my book and I know it says no whitespaces, but I dont see any spaces, and if I make the line 5 code turn into print<<<MY_BOUNDARY it still display's the same error.

My code is as follows:

1 <?php
2
3 $bgcolor="darkblue";
4 $tablecolor = "yellow";
5 print <<<MY_BOUNDARY
6 <html><head><title>heredoc</title</head>
7 <body bgcolor="$bgcolor">
8 <table border="1" bgcolor="$tablecolor">
9 <tr><th>Author</th><th>Book</th></tr>
10 <tr>
11 <td>Marcel Proust</td>
12 <td>Rememberance of Things Past</td>
13 </tr>
14 <tr>
15 <td>Charles Dickens</td>
16 <td>Tale of Two</td>
17 </table>
18 </body> </html>
18 MY_BOUNDARY;
20
21 ?>

NogDog

Double-check your typing, including any spaces. The "T_SL" token is the "<<" bitwise operator (see list of tokens), so maybe you left out a "<" or have an extraneous space in there?

Glubit

Thanks NogDog.

I was able to fix the problem, I just re typed everything from scratch, and it seemed to work fine, I guess I had a space I couldn't see or something. Hehe ^{^;}

djjjozsi

do not put nothing before that heredoc syntax:

And do not put nothing after that heredoc string.
But you can use shortest words.
And do not put numbers as row numbers...

<?php

$bgcolor="darkblue";
$tablecolor = "yellow";
print <<<MY_BOUNDARY
	<html><head><title>heredoc</title</head>
	<body bgcolor="$bgcolor">
        <table border="1" bgcolor="$tablecolor">
	<tr><th>Author</th><th>Book</th></tr>
		<tr>
			<td>Marcel Proust</td>
			<td>Rememberance of Things Past</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td>Charles Dickens</td>
			<td>Tale of Two</td>
			</table>
	</body> </html>	
MY_BOUNDARY;
?>