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Backticks and Laravel String Helpers

Backticks and Laravel String Helpers

Learn about the details of backticks and template strings with the help of examples.

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:

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

Implementing backticks as

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