Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_SL PHP heredoc

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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
– deceze ♦, Commented Jun 26, 2012 at 13:49
no invisible characters. no syntax issue above that I'm aware of. — DBWeinstein
– DBWeinstein, Commented Jun 26, 2012 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
– Kevin_Kinsey, Commented Aug 19, 2015 at 19:09

Justin DeMaris · Accepted Answer · 2014-06-12 14:00:20Z

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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, 2014 at 14:00

answered Jun 26, 2012 at 13:56

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Piotr Olaszewski · Accepted Answer · 2012-06-26 13:49:24Z

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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, 2012 at 13:49

Piotr Olaszewski

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Piotr Olaszewski Over a year ago

In my case work correctly, can you say something more? Any errors?

Piotr Olaszewski Over a year ago

And remember you MUST NO any white chars after echo <<<'END'

deceze Over a year ago

@Piotr Looks like that's the actual problem...!

DBWeinstein Over a year ago

removing a space after END did the trick, I think. Ran right into another bug, so I'll have to see.

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