Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE, expecting

[ngchpg]

I'm new to PHP and currently i face some problem in error as below
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE, expecting T_STRING or T_VARIABLE or T_NUM_STRING

Below are my code. Appreciate if someone can help to point out the error and some suggestion
Thanks a lot!!

while($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result))
{
    $movie_name = $row['movie_name']; //Error line 83
    $movie_director = $row['movie_director'];
    $movie_leadactor = $row['movie_leadactor'];

    //get director's name from people table
    get_director();

    //get lead actor's name from people table
    get_leadactor();

    $movie_details .=<<<EOD
    <tr>
        <td>$movie_name</td>
        <td>$director</td>
        <td>leadactor</td>
    </tr>

EOD;
}

Regards
Alex Ng

[pritaeas]

This part of your code looks fine, are you sure it is not triggered by the lines before this?

Verify that you have the only thing you have after the EOD is a new line, no space, nothing...

http://php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php#language.types.string.syntax.heredoc

[niranga]

Try using mysqli_fetch_assoc instead of mysqli_fetch_array

[pritaeas]

Try using mysqli_fetch_assoc instead of mysqli_fetch_array

mysqli_fetch_array includes mysqli_fetch_assoc