question about heredoc strings

[someusernamehere]

hi, I have some heredoc on this way:

$foo = <<<bar
<form action="index.p hp" method="POST" name="user">
............... ............... ............... ............... ............... ..
HTML code here........... ............... ............... .....
............... ............... ............... ............... ..........
$lang = mysql_query("SE LECT * FROM lang where selected != '*'");
............... ............... ............... ............... ........
more PHP consults to mysql here
............... ............... ............... ..........
bar;
The question is how to escape the php code for display into HTML, what
I have done
is comment it with <!-- and --this works, but if I see the page
source code I can see
all the php code commented here, and obviously is insecure for the
system, anyone know what
to do?
thanks

[=?iso-8859-1?Q?=C1lvaro?= G. Vicario]

*** someusernameher e escribió/wrote (Fri, 1 Aug 2008 09:03:15 -0700 (PDT)):

$foo = <<<bar
<form action="index.p hp" method="POST" name="user">
............... ............... ............... ............... ............... .
HTML code here........... ............... ............... .....
............... ............... ............... ............... .........
$lang = mysql_query("SE LECT * FROM lang where selected != '*'");
............... ............... ............... ............... .......
more PHP consults to mysql here
............... ............... ............... .........
bar;

The question is how to escape the php code for display into HTML, what I
have done is comment it with <!-- and --this works, but if I see the
page source code I can see all the php code commented here, and
obviously is insecure for the system, anyone know what to do?

Heredoc syntax is similar to double quotes: you get variables replaced with
their values, but that's all. You can't put PHP code inside.
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[Jeff]

Álvaro G. Vicario wrote:

*** someusernameher e escribió/wrote (Fri, 1 Aug 2008 09:03:15 -0700 (PDT)):

>$foo = <<<bar
<form action="index.p hp" method="POST" name="user">
.............. ............... ............... ............... ............... ..
HTML code here........... ............... ............... .....
.............. ............... ............... ............... ..........
$lang = mysql_query("SE LECT * FROM lang where selected != '*'");
.............. ............... ............... ............... ........
more PHP consults to mysql here
.............. ............... ............... ..........
bar;

>The question is how to escape the php code for display into HTML, what I
have done is comment it with <!-- and --this works, but if I see the
page source code I can see all the php code commented here, and
obviously is insecure for the system, anyone know what to do?

Heredoc syntax is similar to double quotes: you get variables replaced with
their values, but that's all. You can't put PHP code inside.

Is there a way to do this:

function getSomething(){
return 'something';
}

$content = <<<MY_BLOCK

Insert the return for a function like: getSomething()

....

MY_BLOCK;

That's doable in perl with a trick and I suspect there is a way to do it
in php.

As for the ops question, I have no idea why you'd want to insert code
in the heredoc as you can assemble heredocs just like any variable.

$content .= <<MY_BLOCK

....

MY_BLOCK;

some code...

$content .= <<MY_BLOCK

....

MY_BLOCK;

Jeff

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