PHP multiline string with PHP

Question

I need to echo a lot of PHP and HTML   I already tried the obvious  but it s not working    lt  php echo    lt  php if   has post thumbnail           gt         lt div class  gridly-image  gt  lt a href   lt  php the permalink     gt   gt  lt  php the post thumbnail  summary-image   array  class    gt   overlay    title   gt  the title  Read Article     now  false       gt  lt  a gt         lt  div gt         lt  php      gt          lt div class  date  gt         lt span class  day  gt           lt  php the time  d     gt  lt  span gt         lt div class  holder  gt           lt span class  month  gt             lt  php the time  M     gt  lt  span gt           lt span class  year  gt             lt  php the time  Y     gt  lt  span gt         lt  div gt       lt  div gt       lt  php      gt      gt    How can I do it

User · Accepted Answer

You don t need to output php tags    lt  php      if   has post thumbnail                    echo   lt div class  gridly-image  gt  lt a href     the permalink       gt    the post thumbnail  summary-image   array  class    gt   overlay    title   gt  the title  Read Article     now  false        lt  a gt  lt  div gt               echo   lt div class  date  gt                 lt span class  day  gt    the time  d      lt  span gt                 lt div class  holder  gt                   lt span class  month  gt    the time  M      lt  span gt                   lt span class  year  gt    the time  Y      lt  span gt                 lt  div gt             lt  div gt      gt

User · Answer

To do that  you must remove all   charachters in your string or use an escape character  Like    lt  php     echo   lt  php               echo   hello world                gt      gt

User · Answer

You cannot run PHP code within a string like that  It just doesn t work  As well  when you re  out  of PHP code    gt    any text outside of the PHP blocks is considered output anyway  so there s no need for the echo statement   If you do need to do multiline output from with a chunk of PHP code  consider using a HEREDOC    lt  php   var    Howdy    echo  lt  lt  lt EOL This is output And this is a new line blah blah blah and this following  var will actually say Howdy as well  and now the output ends EOL

User · Answer

The internal set of single quotes in your code is killing the string  Whenever you hit a single quote it ends the string and continues processing  You ll want something like    thisstring    this string is long    in needs escaped single quotes or nothing will run

User · Answer

Another option would be to use the if with a colon and an endif instead of the brackets    lt  php if   has post thumbnail        gt       lt div class  gridly-image  gt           lt a href   lt  php the permalink      gt   gt           lt  php the post thumbnail  summary-image   array  class    gt   overlay    title   gt  the title  Read Article     now  false        gt           lt  a gt       lt  div gt   lt  php endif    gt    lt div class  date  gt       lt span class  day  gt  lt  php the time  d      gt  lt  span gt       lt div class  holder  gt           lt span class  month  gt  lt  php the time  M      gt  lt  span gt           lt span class  year  gt  lt  php the time  Y      gt  lt  span gt       lt  div gt   lt  div gt

User · Answer

Use the show source    function of PHP  Check for more details in show source  This is a better method I guess

User · Answer

Use Heredocs to output muli-line strings containing variables  The syntax is      string    lt  lt  lt HEREDOC    string stuff here HEREDOC    The  HEREDOC  part is like the quotes  and can be anything you want  The end tag must be the only thing on it s line i e  no whitespace before or after  and must end in a colon  For more info check out the manual

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