[superasn]

I really wish Php added support for Perl's qq and q operators sometime too (1)

It would really make writing scripts a lot easier and cleaner.

(1) https://stackoverflow.com/a/41334570/1031454

[iforgotpassword]

I personally think it looks broken and wrong. For short strings I don't see the point and for multiline strings, use a heredoc.

[vessel]

The reason I never use Heredoc is because you need to abandon your indentation, otherwise your tabs/spaces get included in the string. Is there a way around that?

[mrcarrot]

Not since PHP 7.3![1] If you indent the closing identifier, then the corresponding indentation will be removed from the content of the heredoc string.

[1]: https://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php#lang...

[TrispusAttucks]

I thought they fixed this with [1] Flexible Heredoc in 2017 with PHP 7.3

[1] https://wiki.php.net/rfc/flexible_heredoc_nowdoc_syntaxes

[syberspace]

I've gotten into the habit of generally using single quoted strings (with 'around them') which alleviates most problems with escaping double quotes. And for the odd string that needs to have a single quote inside I switch back to double quoting.

This approach also has the added bonus of stopping PHP from accidentally evaluating something inside the strings.