Large strings in PHP with heredoc <<< statements

$ezldata = <<<EZDATA
beginning of large string
stick variables in like this below
{$data['state']}
MONTGOMERY
20878
more of the long large string
EZDATA;

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11274354/use-variable-within-heredoc…

THE CLOSING LINE CANNOT HAVE ANY EXTRA SPACES, OR EVEN A TAB.