Hello, when using phped 3.3eval and I define a variable like:

$data=<<<EOD
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="Windows-1252"?>
EOD;

the quotes breaks the syntax highlighting so all php below it geats greyed out.

oh, and it's not only the quotes itself, but the ?> inside there i realised.. but still same thing.

it's <<< operator that is really hard to support in state-less highlighter.
you may retype your code as follows:



BTW, do you know any php-oriented editor that supports <<< ?

Hi, well.

One of the main reasons i use <<< operator is to -not-have-to- escape thoose chars. But I understand the editor problem.

Cant think of any editor that does it, but again. Haven't used so many.

But the php (.phps) extension highlights it correct. If it's any help.

Thanks for a great editor!

I know. PHP engine highlights correct, but it can't re-run highlighting from a given line and therefore it can't operate as an embedded highliter for an editor.

Would it not at least be possible to make it a dead zone between a <<<STARTTAG

-- dead zone, just greyed out --
--- until---

STARTTAG;

So everything below it could still be highlighted. Or something like that.

Hello, found out that VIM handles this <<< syntax coloring thing.

Using the syntax coloring map : , it also matches the START/END pairs, like


$var <<< UNTILEND
Stuff, stuff... <?php ?> ... no problem, all just text......
UNTILEND;

then both UNTILEND is highlighted also, and everything below it, so it doesnt break the highlight.

A workaround that I use is:


This will highlight the HTML code as one big comment.

I remember that macromedia homesite, whch i used to use (version 5.5 i believe) highlighted heredoc syntax perfectly: as if it were a string. come to think of it, I'm pretty sure it had a specific highlight-color option for heredoc strings that was separate from the color for regular strings.

that would be a nice feature in phpEd.