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PHP here doc FAQ: Can you share some examples of the PHP "here" doc (heredoc) syntax?

"Here" documents in many languages are provided as a way to address the following problems:

I've been working on a single sign-on project lately, evaluating both OpenSSO and IBM's trio of TIM, TAM, and WebSeal, and I noticed that Google has only 32,000 links to real WebSeal resources. By contrast, even as a young open source project, OpenSSO already has over 100,000 links.

Out of curiosity, I decided to google a variety of web languages and tools, and here are my search results:

Here's a simple PHP program I wrote to test how PHP works with OpenSSO, specifically how it works with OpenSSO identity information.

I saved this file with the name info.php, then put it in a directory on my Apache web server that is protected by an OpenSSO login policy. To access this page, I enter the URL for the page in my browser and try to access it, with the URL being something like this:

In my inaugural PHP entry, an answer to a simple question: Where are PHP libraries installed?

Answer: I just installed a PHP library named HTTP_Request using PEAR (the PHP Extension and Application Repository), and it was installed into the following directory:

Update: If you're interested in using PHP and MySQL on Mac OS X, these days I recommend skipping this article and using MAMP, which I describe in my Mac OS X MAMP tutorial.