break line without breaking the assignment

[miriamn]

Hi,

 

 

 

I know Perl , starting to work with PHP.

 

 

 

I want to put a very long string into a variable, I don’t want to write the string in a very long line. (for readability…)

 

I want to “break” the line without breaking the assignment to the variable.

 

 

 

In Perl, I’m doing something like:

 

 

 

$var =<< HTML;

 

  here is the text….

 

  here is the text….

 

  here is the text….

 

  here is the text….

 

HTML

 

 

 

( instead of : $var =”  here is the text….  here is the text…. here is the text….here is the text…. “; )

 

 

 

Is there something similar in PHP?

 

 

 

Thanks,

 

Miriam.

 

 

[dbo]

Did you try:

 

$variable = "
    this 
    is
    a
    long
    one?
";

[448191]

You can do pretty much the same as you do in Perl in PHP. It's called Heredoc syntax.

 

And, surprise, surprise, it is actually in the manual...

 

http://nl3.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php

 

Btw, moving to PHP Help, this has nothing to with Application Design...