Declaring a PHP array with strings written on multiple lines

Question

PHP allows to declare a string on multiple lines as following:

$s = <<<EOS
    Hello
    World!
EOS;

Is is possible to use that notation to declare an array of strings? I'd like to write a code such as the following one (that is of course not working):

$data = array(<<<EOS
    Hello
    World!
EOS;, 
<<<EOS
    Hello
    Me!
EOS;);

Oh yes, it's also working by removing all the ; after the EOS! Thanks! — combefis
– combefis, Commented Jun 10, 2016 at 12:48
@pes502 I get errors and/or the wrong output without additional modification as shown in my answer. — MonkeyZeus
– MonkeyZeus, Commented Jun 10, 2016 at 12:53
@MonkeyZeus I don't see any errors, but the output is bugged. So you really need to add coma and ); (array ending) to the separate lines. +1 for you — pes502
– pes502, Commented Jun 10, 2016 at 12:56
I am testing at sandbox.onlinephpfunctions.com with PHP 7.0.5 and closing the array on the same line as the closing EOS, like this EOS);, produces a parse error. — MonkeyZeus
– MonkeyZeus, Commented Jun 10, 2016 at 13:18

MonkeyZeus · Accepted Answer · 2016-06-10 13:17:24Z

5

Certainly you can:

<?php
$a = array(<<<EOS
    foo
    bar!
EOS
, // comma here is important
<<<EOS
    bar
    foo!
EOS
); // closing the array on a separate line is important

print_r($a);

See Example #3 at http://php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php

This works too by the way:

<?php
$a = array(
    'foo
    bar!',
    'bar
    foo!'
);

print_r($a);

edited Jun 10, 2016 at 13:17

answered Jun 10, 2016 at 12:40

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MAK · Accepted Answer · 2016-06-10 12:44:10Z

0

I use templates for long text:

     $data = array(file_get_contents('file1.txt'),  
file_get_contents('file2.txt')
    );



 print_r($data);exit;

file1.txt content

"sample line1"

file2.txt content

"sample line2 end of line

"

answered Jun 10, 2016 at 12:44

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