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Using Laravel for Advanced String Manipulation in PHP

Backticks and Laravel String Helpers

Discover the role of backticks in PHP as shell command operators and why they differ from JavaScript template strings. Learn to use Laravel's extensive string helper methods to handle multibyte strings safely and simplify formatting, logical operations, construction, and extraction tasks in your PHP applications.

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Backticks

PHP developers commonly move back and forth between front-end languages, such as JavaScript, and our backend languages. When working in languages like JavaScript, it is common to construct template strings using the backtick character (`):

`Hello, ${name}.`

It is imperative to note that to accomplish the same thing in PHP, we should use the heredoc syntax or double-quoted strings:

PHP
<?php
$string = <<<STRING
Hello, {$name}.
STRING;
echo $string = "Hello, {$name}.";

Implementing backticks as shell commands

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