Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_SL PHP heredoc

Question

I keep getting the following error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_SL in /home/a4999406/public_html/willingLog.html on line 70

on the following code (first line is line 70):

        echo <<<END 
<form action = "willingLog.html" method="post"><pre>
    First       <input type="text" name="first" />
    Last        <input type="text" name="last" />
    Email       <input type="text" name="email" />
    Username    <input type="text" name="user_name" />
                <input type="submit" value="AD RECORD" />
</pre></form>
END;

heredoc just doesn't seem to work. i've tried other examples.

following is by doctype heading. is there something wrong there?

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">

Are there any funky invisible characters in there, or any syntax problems *before* that? — deceze, Jun 26 '12 at 13:49
no invisible characters. no syntax issue above that I'm aware of. — DBWeinstein, Jun 26 '12 at 13:51
Not *too* weird; one common reason for this error is a coder only uses two "<" instead of the requisite 3 for the HEREDOC delimiter. Hard to spot, too ;-) — Kevin_Kinsey, Aug 19 '15 at 19:09

Justin DeMaris · Accepted Answer · 2014-06-12T14:00:20.240

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Looking at the copy-paste, it looks like you have a space character after the word "END" on the first line:

'echo <<<END '

Try getting rid of the space character. Answer found by Googling. Source (link now dead): http://www.alexxoid.com/blog/dev/php-dev/php-parse-error-unexpected-t_sl.html

edited Jun 12 '14 at 14:00

answered Jun 26 '12 at 13:56

Justin DeMaris

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 26 '12 at 13:49

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Try:

echo <<<'END'
<form action = "willingLog.html" method="post"><pre>
    First       <input type="text" name="first" />
    Last        <input type="text" name="last" />
    Email       <input type="text" name="email" />
    Username    <input type="text" name="user_name" />
                <input type="submit" value="AD RECORD" />
</pre></form>
END;

answered Jun 26 '12 at 13:49

Piotr Olaszewski

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In my case work correctly, can you say something more? Any errors? – Piotr Olaszewski Jun 26 '12 at 13:52
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And remember you MUST NO any white chars after `echo <<<'END'` – Piotr Olaszewski Jun 26 '12 at 13:55
@Piotr Looks like that's the actual problem...! – deceze Jun 26 '12 at 13:56
removing a space after END did the trick, I think. Ran right into another bug, so I'll have to see. – DBWeinstein Jun 26 '12 at 14:05

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_SL PHP heredoc

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