put string in variable using <? ?>

Question

I think it is sometimes easier to use php tags instead of echo for example

<?
if()
    echo "<img src='' onclick='alert(\"hello\")'/>";
?>

instead of that I code like this

<?
if(){
?>
<img src='' onclick='alert("hello")'/>
<?}
?>

We got rid of backslashing. But what about strings I want something like this:

<?
$str="?>
   <img src='' onclick='alert("hello")'/>
<?";
?>

Yes, I use the second form. For the third example, store the snippet in an HTML file and load it in using file_get_contents. — halfer
– halfer, Commented Jul 27, 2014 at 12:48

Michael Berkowski · Accepted Answer · 2014-07-27 12:49:59Z

6

<?php
$str = <<<IMGTAG
 <img src="" onclick="alert('hello')"/>
IMGTAG;

echo $str;
?>

Enjoy your code.

Michael Berkowski

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answered Jul 27, 2014 at 12:49

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halfer · Accepted Answer · 2014-07-27 13:25:37Z

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There is an alternative Syntax specifically for this kind of formation:

<?php if (x): ?>
<div>...</div>
<?php endif; ?>

Also there are short tags:

<?= "hello world" ?>

This directly prints a string and is equal to:

<?php echo "hello world" ?>

For string assignment you can do what Magicianred sugested. You could also do it with output buffering:

<?php ob_start(); ?>
<div>test</div>
<?php 
$str = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
echo $str;
?>

Though output buffering shouldn't be abused for this. Heredoc syntax is the best solution here.

halfer

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answered Jul 27, 2014 at 12:49

Ke Vin

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I think the OP was asking how to do this with string assignments.