Best Practices: working with long, multiline strings in PHP?

Question

Note: I\'m sorry if this is an extremely simple question but I\'m somewhat obsessive compulsive over the formatting of my code.

I have a class that has a function th

Answer 1

The one who believes that

"abc\n" . "def\n"

is multiline string is wrong. That's two strings with concatenation operator, not a multiline string. Such concatenated strings cannot be used as keys of pre-defined arrays, for example. Unfortunately php does not offer real multiline strings in form of

"abc\n"
"def\n"

only HEREDOC and NOWDOC syntax, which is more suitable for templates, because nested code indent is broken by such syntax.