syntax error, unexpected T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE, expecting T_STRING or T_VARIABLE

[raja30march90]

I am new to php. I use the below query,

<?php
if(isset($_POST['btn']))
{
$table=<<<table
<table>
<thead>
<tr>		
<th style="text-align:center">"#"</font></th>
<th>1</font></th>
<th>2</font></th>
<th>3</font></th>
<th>4</font></th>
<th>5</font></th>
<th>6</font></th>
<th>7</font></th>
<th>8</font></th>
<th>9</font></th>
<th>10</font></th>
<th>11</font></th>
<th>12</font></th>
<th>13</font></th>
<th>14</font></th>
<th>15</font></th>
<th>16</font></th>
<th>17</font></th>
<th>18</font></th>
<th>19</font></th>
<th>20</font></th>
<th>21</font></th>
<th>22</font></th>
<th>23</font></th>
<th>24</font></th>
<th>25</font></th>
<th>26</font></th>
<th>27</font></th>
<th>28</font></th>
<th>29</font></th>
<th>30</font></th>
<th>31</font></th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
include ("DBconnection.php");
$month_N="1";
$Year_No = date("Y");
$CurrentDate = date('Y-m-d');
$Employee = $_POST['Employee'];
//echo $Employe;
if($Employee!="" && $Employee!="Select"){
$EmployeeQuery="Select employeedetails_id, concat(firstname,' ', lastname) as EmpName, employeeenrollnumber from employeedetails where employeedetails.Status!='Dismissed' and employeedetails_id=".$Employee." order by firstname";
}
table;
}

It give the Syntax Error for me..

Please help me any one ..
Thanks...

[Rabbit]

What's going on with line 4-42? You can't just have HTML within PHP tags like that. If you want to output HTML within PHP tags, you need to echo them.