define and heredoc

Question

How do you use define within a heredoc? For example:

define('PREFIX', '/holiday');

$body = <<<EOD
<img src="PREFIX/images/hello.png" />   // This doesn't work.
EOD;

Answer 1

taken from the documentation regarding strings

DEFINE('PREFIX','/holiday');

$const = PREFIX;

echo <<<EOD
<img src="{$const}/images/hello.png" /> 
EOD;

Answer 2

if you have more than 1 constant, variable usage would be difficult. so try this method

define('PREFIX', '/holiday');
define('SUFFIX', '/work');
define('BLABLA', '/lorem');
define('ETC', '/ipsum');

$cname = 'constant'; // if you want to use a function in heredoc, you must save function name in variable

$body = <<<EOD
<img src="{$cname('PREFIX')}/images/hello.png" />
<img src="{$cname('SUFFIX')}/images/hello.png" />
<img src="{$cname('BLABLA')}/images/hello.png" />
<img src="{$cname('ETC')}/images/hello.png" />
EOD;

http://codepad.org/lA8L2wQR

Answer 3

Constants used within the heredoc syntax are not interpreted!

Editor's Note: This is true. PHP has no way of recognizing the constant from any other string of characters within the heredoc block.

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