simplify fputs()

contraction

[WhosAWhata]

i am currently using code that resembles this:
fputs($cmke,"<? \$first=\"");
fputs($cmke,$first);
fputs($cmke,"\"; \$last=\"");
fputs($cmke,$last);
fputs($cmke,"\"; \$username=\"");
fputs($cmke,$username);
fputs($cmke,"\"; \$password=\"");
fputs($cmke,$mypass);
fputs($cmke,"\";?>");
this isn't too bad, but in reality i have many more variables, i'd like to turn this into just one fputs() command is that possible?
My script isn't done yet so i can't test, but i would assume that it could be written like this:

fputs($cmke,"<? \$first=\"" . $first . "\"; \$last=\"" . $last . "\"; \$username=\"" . $username . "\"; \$password=\"" . $mypass . "\";?>");

is this right?

[jatar_k]

does it actually work WhosAWhata?

[BitBanger]

Rather than all the extra quotes and concantinations try something like this:

fputs($cmke,"<? \$first=\"{$first}\"; \$last=\"{$last}\"; \$username=\"{$username}\"; \$password=\"{$mypass}\";?>"); 

I use this sort of structure all the time to output HTML.

[WhosAWhata]

as a matter of fact,
both of these strange structures seem to work, i placed them in a blank php file and went to file.php?first=this&last=that&username=something
and it created a file with the desired contents
THANKS

[mykel79]

You can also try heredocs.

$body=<<<END
this is the
body I want
to enter into
a file!
END;

fputs($cmke,$body);

I'm just not sure if the <? won't mess things up. I definitely works otherwise, because I do it myself often.