What does <<< do?

I see <<< in a lot of scripts....what does it do?

[amnesia440]

Hello -

I was wondering what <<< does

For example:

<<<ENDPRINT 
  (...code (usually a bunch of it)...) 
ENDPRINT; 

I *did* do some searching for it online and read that it's used when there is a block of code that you want the php parser to ignore. I understand that, but I also see variables inside the <<< blocks.

Can you have variables in the <<< (wish I knew the exact term)

Thanks

[cameraman]

It's called heredoc [us3.php.net] syntax. It's a convenient way of assigning a large amount of text to a variable, and yes, you can use other variables in it.

[amnesia440]

Thank you cameraman, I will read up on it!