PHP: Echo HTML code with both types of quotes without escape character

Luckily, there is an elegant solution. The magic word is called "heredoc" or "nowdoc".

Here's an example for heredoc:

$foo='test';
 
echo <<<EOT
<p>This is an example for "heredoc" and
this is a variable '$foo'.</p>
EOT;

All that is written between "echo <<<EOT" and "EOT;" will be outputed. Also characters such as <, >, ' and " can be written down. It is important, that "echo <<<EOT" and "EOT;" are written at the beginning of the line and there are no other characters behind, even no spaces, because this will cause an error message. So, you can easily write your HTML code and beyond, you can also use variables, that are evaluated and outputed.

If you have do not want the variables to be evaluated, you can simply use the following syntax:

echo <<<'EOD'
<p>Here, variables will not be utilized</p>
EOD;

Already the variables are no longer evaluated. This variant is called nowdoc.
2012-06-29 at 18:16