working with constants

[efficacious]

Does anyone know how to echo a defined constant without using concatenation?

 

something like

 

<?php
define("CONST", "VALUE");

echo <<<END
Some html and my Const = CONST
END;

?>

 

This works but I want the var to be const

 

<?php
$CONST = "VALUE";

echo <<<END
Some html and my Const = $CONST
END;

?>

 

 

Thanks for your replies

[fugix]

What exactly do you mean by you want the var to be constant without concatenation?

[Zurev]

I believe you'd have to concatenate it...like

 

echo "This is my constant". CONSTANT;

 

But what's the big deal of having to use concatenation?

[efficacious]

I have the values plugged into HTML that gets included and echoed out and I don't want ppl who may have to edit the html later to have to deal with concatentation..

[fugix]

You can also encase the var in curly brackets instead of concatenation.

[efficacious]

You can also encase the var in curly brackets instead of concatenation.

 

could you show an example..plz

[Zurev]

Right, you can for variables..but not constants:

 

$variable = 'Hello World';

echo "Guess what? {$variable}"; // Guess What? Hello World

[efficacious]

I suppose its not completely necessary to use a constant but it would be ideal

[fugix]

yes i would like to know why you need to use a constant here

[efficacious]

i was offbase with the constants I think but after looking at the how phpbb handled their html files I made my own light weight version of it. Its working much better now.. I ended up making a template class that compiles w.e html documents previously set to a string then that string is returned and evaluated then just printed out. I have gotten it to succesfully build an HTML template with php variables and displayed with values.

The value i had orginally intended to echo as a constant I changed to a regular variable. Thanks for your replies all, they were all helpful.