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?

[cuonic]

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