having a semi collin in a variable?

[blah569]

How can I do that? Example:

$variable =
"
some code goes here...;
some more here;
";

I hope you understand. Please help. Thanks.

[Gutya]

In PHP?

You can have a semi-colon in strings.

[blah569]

No... you will get a error. It will day like "unexpected T_END" if you have it in a string.

[Jessii]

Can't you put it in quotes so that it comes up as text?

[blah569]

this is what I am trying to do:

$code =
"
$sql_un = '$un';
$sql_pw = '$pw';
$sql_host = '$host';
$sql_db = '$db';

mysql_connect('$sql_host','$sql_pw','$sql_pw' )or die('ZarginBB Error #1<br><br>Can't connect to the database. Ask one of the admins for help.');
mysql_select_db('$sql_db')or die('ZarginBB Error #2<br><br>Can't select the database. Contact the admin.");
";

[Gutya]

Why does all that need to go into a string?

And it's better to do multi-line strings with heredoc.

Example:

$string = <<<IDENTIFIER

String
contents
here
you can even ouput $variables without escaping the string.

INDENTIFIER;

echo $string;

Where IDENTIFIER tells PHP where to start and end the string, it can be anything you want, but I usually make it upper-case to avoid confusion.

[blah569]

At 12/3/06 06:39 PM, Gutya wrote: Why does all that need to go into a string?

And it's better to do multi-line strings with heredoc.

Thanks. I will try that =).

[DFox]

$code =
'
$sql_un = \'$un\';
$sql_pw = \'$pw\';
$sql_host = \'$host\';
$sql_db = \'$db\';

mysql_connect(\'$sql_host\',\'$sql_pw\',\'$sq l_pw\' )or die(\'ZarginBB Error #1<br><br>Can\'t connect to the database. Ask one of the admins for help.\');
mysql_select_db(\'$sql_db\')or die(\'ZarginBB Error #2<br><br>Can\'t select the database. Contact the admin.");
';
?

[henke37]

Have you heard of functions? You sure does not act like you have.

[authorblues]

At 12/4/06 02:59 AM, henke37 wrote: Have you heard of functions? You sure does not act like you have.

how is that relevant? i just guess i missed the point...