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[bitwise]

Is there anyway to have a print block such as:

<?php
print<<<HTML_DUMP
...
...
...
HTML_DUMP;
?>

And in that block of HTML can you switch back to PHP and execute some statements? For example,

<?php
print<<<HTML_DUMP
...
<input type="hidden" name="example" value="<?php echo $var; ?>">
...
HTML_DUMP;
?>

See what I mean? Can you some how accomplish this (i.e. get the value of "$var" set to the actual value of the hidden html field while in the middle of a HTML_DUMP block? Thanks.

 

[jpadie]

you cannot perform functions inside heredoc.

you can do this include variables happily though

<?php
print<<<HTML_DUMP
...
<input type="hidden" name="example" value="[red]$var[/red]">
...
HTML_DUMP;
?>

i.e. variables are expanded within the heredoc syntax. for arrays you need to use curly braces to disambiguate.