PHP - String spanning multiple lines

Question

I'm fairly new to php. I have a very long string, and I don't want to have newlines in it. In python, I would accomplish this by doing the following:

new_string = ("string extending to edge of screen......................................."
    + "string extending to edge of screen..............................................."
    + "string extending to edge of screen..............................................."
    )

Is there anything like this that I can do in PHP?

a period concatenates strings in php.... $x = "str"."ing"; — gloomy.penguin
– gloomy.penguin, Commented Nov 4, 2013 at 22:06
not to mention variables need a $ before them, and a ; at the end — Sterling Archer
– Sterling Archer, Commented Nov 4, 2013 at 22:08
in php aslo this would work: $string = "some_string [new line] some_string [new_line] some_string" without adding (.) operatore — Sabri Aziri
– Sabri Aziri, Commented Nov 4, 2013 at 22:09

Fluffeh · Accepted Answer · 2013-11-04 22:08:31Z

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You can use this format:

$string="some text...some text...some text...some text..."
."some text...some text...some text...some text...some text...";

Where you simply use the concat . operator across many lines - PHP doesn't mind new lines - as long as each statement ends with a ;.

Or

$string="some text...some text...some text...some text...";
$string.="some text...some text...some text...some text...";

Where each statement is ended with a ; but this time we use a .= operator which is the same as typing:

$string="some text...some text...some text...some text...";
$string=$string."some text...some text...some text...some text...";

answered Nov 4, 2013 at 22:08

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Black Over a year ago

Isn't there a better way? Something like $string = { } so we can easily mark a whole block as string?

Community · Accepted Answer · 2023-11-21 15:10:29Z

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Use the . operator:

$concatened = 'string1' . 'string2';

You can spread this across multiple lines and use it together with the assingment operator :

$str  = 'string1';
$str .= 'string2';

...

An alternative is to use join(). join() allows to concat and array with strings using a delimiter:

$str = join('', array(
    'string1',
    'string2'
));

edited Nov 21, 2023 at 15:10

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answered Nov 4, 2013 at 22:07

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