What is the advantage of using heredoc in PHP? [closed]

Answer 1

First of all, all the reasons are subjective. It's more like a matter of taste rather than a reason.

Personally, I find heredoc quite useless and use it occasionally, most of the time when I need to get some HTML into a variable and don't want to bother with output buffering, to form an HTML email message for example.

Formatting doesn't fit general indentation rules, but I don't think it's a big deal.

       //some code at it's proper level
       $this->body = <<title = "Feedback";
       //and so on

As for the examples in the accepted answer, it is merely cheating.
String examples, in fact, being more concise if one won't cheat on them

$sql = "SELECT * FROM $tablename
        WHERE id in [$order_ids_list]
        AND product_name = 'widgets'";

$x = 'The point of the "argument" was to illustrate the use of here documents';