Darren, Small confusion in the typing of the original (accurate) submission. It is all one word "heredoc" and can be found in the manual (using Paul's recommended location) check out http://uk.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php#language.types.string.syntax.heredoc. Think of the <<<something ... something (margin position second something is v.important) as equivalent to '...' or "..." (opening and closing marks to delimit a string) and you'll be away.
=dn ----- Original Message ----- From: "p.whiter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PHP-DB List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Darren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 04 November 2001 02:07 Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] "EOQ" what does it mean?? > If you are running windows, I suggest you download the .chm version of the > php manual, great for easy searching and bookmarking pages etc. > > http://uk2.php.net/distributions/manual/manual-en.chm > > To answer your question, the first piece of code will be, replace: > > $output = <<<EOQ > </form> > EOQ; > > with > > $output = print("</form>"); > > and the next replace: > > $output = <<<EOQ > <input type="text" name="$name" value="$value" size="$size" $maxatt> > EOQ; > > with > > $output =print("<input type=\"text\" name=\"$name\" value=\"$value\" > size=\"$size\" $maxatt>"); > > When using the print statement you must remember to escape all " within the > parenthesis with \ > > Paul > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Darren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > : You are exactly right from what I can tell. I did you you suggested > : and it worked! There are several of those in the document. Looked > : it up in the book and have a limited idea on what it is, and also > : learning from your example I have a better Idea. But I did a search > : for here docs, on the PHP site and couldn't find anything. I think > : I can probably figure out the other 6 or 7 in the document but I > : can't figure this on out. > : > : > : here tis > : > : // This function returns an HTML </form> tag. > : > : function end_form () > : { > : $output = <<<EOQ > : </form> > : EOQ; > : > : return $output; > : } > : > : ******* > : I know this must be simple but I just can't get it yet. I tried > : experimenting and putting other code in there to replace it but > : nothing has worked... yet. > : > : Thanks again for the help > : > : Darren > : > : PS here is the next one in case you felt like looking at it > : > : // This function returns an HTML text input field. The default size > : // of the field is 10. A value and maximum data length for the field > : // may be supplied. > : > : function text_field ($name="", $value="", $size=10, $maxlen="") > : { > : $maxatt = empty($maxlen) ? "" : "maxlength=\"$maxlen\""; > : $output = <<<EOQ > : <input type="text" name="$name" value="$value" size="$size" $maxatt> > : EOQ; > : return $output; > : } > : > > > > -- > PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
