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Using Laravel for Advanced String Manipulation in PHP

Types of PHP Strings

Learn to identify and use the four main types of PHP strings: single-quoted, double-quoted, heredoc, and nowdoc. This lesson covers their syntax, behavior with escape sequences, variable embedding in double quotes, and multiline string construction. Understanding these string forms helps you manipulate text effectively within Laravel applications while respecting encoding and parsing rules.

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We have covered a lot of ground so far but have not taken much time to look at how we can create strings in PHP. PHP provides four different ways to define strings:

  • Single-quoted strings
  • Double-quoted strings
  • Heredoc strings
  • Nowdoc strings

Single quoted strings

One of the most common string syntaxes we find is the single-quote syntax. Using this syntax, we wrap the contents of our string with single quotes:

PHP
<?php
// Outputs A single quote string.
echo 'A single quote string.';

The benefit of the single-quote syntax is that all escape sequences (beyond escaping a single quote or ...