Gossamer Forum: General: Internet Technologies: Better than <<HTML or " ???

Jul 10, 2002, 3:31 AM

Andy

Veteran / Moderator (17364 posts)

Jul 10, 2002, 3:31 AM

Post #1 of 3

Shortcut

Better than <<HTML or " ???

Does anyone know of a better way to quote strings, without having to escape charachters? (this is PHP) I.e.

$var = "something but \" need to be escaped...which is a pain";

and

$var = <<<HTML
Again, here I can use " without a problem, but I have to make sure the ending quote for this script does NOT have any leading spaces, otherwise I get a parse error!
HTML;

Is there any better way to do this?

Thanks

Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk

IMPORTANT: I've now moved to ultranerds.co.uk, and the .com will no longer work!
Want to give me something back for my help? Please see my Amazon Wish List
GLinks ULTRA Package (plugins total "value" $3,325 & rising, for just $350)| GLinks ULTRA Package PRO (plugins total "value" $5,625 & rising, for just $500)
Support Forum | Links SQL Plugins | DMOZ Dumps | UltraNerds | ULTRAGLobals Plugin | Pre-Made Template Sets | FREE GLinks Plugins!
Compare our different Plugin packages *new* Free CSS Templates

Aug 1, 2002, 6:08 AM

Seto Kaiba

User (105 posts)

Aug 1, 2002, 6:08 AM

Post #2 of 3

Shortcut

Re: [Andy] Better than <<HTML or " ??? In reply to

Since no one replied to you.. I will.

NO. You can't.

Since most HTML is done between the PHP code, it really doesn't matter that much. You'll probably prefer to do the quotes and using backslash to escape quotes inside. You'll get used to it real fast. Some people just switch to single quotes inside the double quotes. Unless you're stingy.. you won't really care.

--
jsu

Aug 3, 2002, 3:58 AM

Andy

Veteran / Moderator (17364 posts)

Aug 3, 2002, 3:58 AM

Post #3 of 3

Shortcut

Re: [Seto Kaiba] Better than <<HTML or " ??? In reply to

Thanks for the reply :)

Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk