Printing multiple lines - not working ??

[bsprogs]

Hey everyone,

I'm new to php programming and I'm currently trying to have my script print multiple lines using a single print statement.
Here is my original code in html

[code]<form name="form1" method="POST" action="<?php print $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']?>">
  <div align="left">Username:
    <input type="text" name="username" value="<?php ('username') ?>"/>
      <br />
    Password:
  <input type="password" name="password" value="<?php ('password') ?>"/>
  <input type="submit" value="Add User" />
  </div>
</form>
[/code]

I looked and I found this command
<?php
print <<<ANYTHING
Print information here
ANYTHING;
?>

Here is the code I actually used:
[code]
<?php
print <<<TEST
<form name="form1" method="POST" action="$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']">
  <div align="left">Username:
    <input type="text" name="username" />
      <br />
    Password:
  <input type="password" name="password" />
  <input type="submit" value="Add User" />
  </div>
</form>
TEST;
?>
[/code]

When I run that code I get the following error

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE, expecting T_STRING or T_VARIABLE or T_NUM_STRING in /home/myusername/public_html/game/index.php on line 140

Line 140 contains this line of code
[code]
<form name="form1" method="POST" action="$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']">
[/code]

I have no idea why this is not working. I've checked other examples and used the direct examples and I get the same error with any code I try to use.

Is there something I need to turn on in the PHP.ini file?

I did however get this to work :-/
[code]
<?php
print "<form name=\"form1\" method=\"POST\" action=".$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'].">";
print  "<div align=\"left\">Username:\n";
print    "<input type=\"text\" name=\"username\"/>";
print      "<br />\n";
print    "Password:";
print  "<input type=\"password\" name=\"password\" />";
print  "<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Add User\"  />";
print  "</div>";
print "</form>";
?>
[/code]

It would be nice to be able to cut it a little shorter if possible though :) Thanks

[wildteen88]

You should add cury braces around your variables in a HEREDOC statement like so:
{$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']}

otherwise you'll get the error message you are curtrently getting. Wrapping curly brakets around a variable shows PHP where the variable starts and ends basically.

[bsprogs]

[!--quoteo(post=372224:date=May 8 2006, 01:26 AM:name=wildteen88)--][div class=\'quotetop\']QUOTE(wildteen88 @ May 8 2006, 01:26 AM) [snapback]372224[/snapback][/div][div class=\'quotemain\'][!--quotec--]
You should add cury braces around your variables in a HEREDOC statement like so:
{$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']}

otherwise you'll get the error message you are curtrently getting. Wrapping curly brakets around a variable shows PHP where the variable starts and ends basically.
[/quote]

Perfect. Its funny that I never ran across anything mentioning that. Thanks a lot :)