PHP Escape Slash

Using Escape Slash

My name is "Kaylin" and I am learning PHP.

Not Using Escape Slash

My name is Kaylin and I am learning PHP.

Explanation

The escape slash, or backslash, allows special characters such as quotation marks to be included inside a PHP string without ending the string early. In my first example, the backslashes allow quotation marks to appear around my name. The second example does not need escape slashes because there are no extra quotation marks inside the string.