unexpected T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE, expecting T_STRING or T_VARIABLE or T_NUM_STRING error

Question

i\'ve been staringly blanky at this error and can\'t seem to know what the problem is.When i run the query i get this error:

unexpected T_ENCAPSED_AND

Answer 1

In my case, heredoc caused the issue. There is no problem with PHP version 7.3 up. Howerver, it error with PHP 7.0.33 if you use heredoc with space.

My example code

$rexpenditure = <<
                      $row->payment_referencenumber
                      $row->payment_requestdate
                      $row->payment_description
                      $row->payment_fundingsource
                      $row->payment_agencyulo
                      $row->payment_agencyproject
                      $$row->payment_disbustment
                      $row->payment_payeename
                      $row->payment_processpayment
                  
Expenditure;

It will error if there is a space on PHP 7.0.33.