HEREDOC Returning unexpected end

Question

The following snippet is causing an

\"PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end in /Applications/MAMP/htdocs3/nettuts/PHP/PDO for Database Acces

Answer 1

You have a whole bunch of spaces (9 to be exact) after the EOT; in the loop.

From the manual

... there may not be any spaces or tabs before or after the semicolon ...

Why are you wrapping the $output variable inside a HEREDOC string? I'd just change the loop to

printf('<tr><td align="left">%s</td><td align="left">%s</td></tr>',
       htmlspecialchars($row["name"]),
       htmlspecialchars($row["dr"]));

or even better, use PHP's alternative syntax.