The latest articles on DEV Community by Farhan Halai (@farhanhalai). https://dev.to/farhanhalai https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F556144%2Fcee7e519-b2e5-4ecd-99c9-28d9ada31818.jpeg https://dev.to/farhanhalai en Farhan Halai Fri, 08 Jan 2021 15:56:04 +0000 https://dev.to/farhanhalai/single-vs-double-quote-strings-in-php-5303 https://dev.to/farhanhalai/single-vs-double-quote-strings-in-php-5303 <p>In PHP, string written in single quotes is displayed 'as it is'. Variables and most of escape sequences are not interpolated.</p> <p>Example,<br> </p> <div class="highlight js-code-highlight"> <pre class="highlight php"><code><span class="nv">$name</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s1">'Farhan'</span><span class="p">;</span> <span class="k">echo</span> <span class="s1">'Welcome $name'</span><span class="p">;</span> <span class="c1">// Output: 'Welcome $name';</span> </code></pre> </div> <p>Whereas in double quotes, variables and escape sequences are interpolated.<br> </p> <div class="highlight js-code-highlight"> <pre class="highlight php"><code><span class="nv">$name</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s1">'Farhan'</span><span class="p">;</span> <span class="k">echo</span> <span class="s2">"Welcome </span><span class="nv">$name</span><span class="s2">"</span><span class="p">;</span> <span class="c1">// Output: "Welcome Farhan"</span> </code></pre> </div> <p>Edit #1:<br> Thanks <a href="https://dev.to/cseder">@cseder</a> for correcting to use <code>interpolated</code> instead of <code>interpreted</code>.</p> todayilearned php webdev programming