Escaping quotation marks in PHP

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I am getting a parse error  and I think it s because of the quotation marks over  time   How can I make it treat it as a whole string    lt  php      text1    From time to  time  this submerged or latent theater in  Hamlet      becomes almost overt  It is close to the surface in Hamlet s pretense of madness      the  antic disposition  he puts on to protect himself and prevent his antagonists     from plucking out the heart of his mystery  It is even closer to the surface when     Hamlet enters his mother s room and holds up  side by side  the pictures of the     two kings  Old Hamlet and Claudius  and proceeds to describe for her the true     nature of the choice she has made  presenting truth by means of a show      Similarly  when he leaps into the open grave at Ophelia s funeral  ranting in     high heroic terms  he is acting out for Laertes  and perhaps for himself as well      the folly of excessive  melodramatic expressions of grief          text2    From time to  time         similar text  textl   text2   p       echo  Percent   p      The problem is that I can t manually add   before every quotation mark  This is the actual text I need to compare

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Save your text not in a PHP file  but in an ordinary text file called  say   text txt   Then with one simple  text1   file get contents  text txt    command have your text with not a single problem

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Use the addslashes function     str    Is your name O Reilly         Outputs  Is your name O  Reilly     echo addslashes  str

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You can use the PHP function addslashes   to any string to make it compatible

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Use a backslash as such   From time to   time       Backslashes are used in PHP to escape special characters within quotes  As PHP does not distinguish between strings and characters  you could also use this   From time to  time      The difference between single and double quotes is that double quotes allows for string interpolation  meaning that you can reference variables inline in the string and their values will be evaluated in the string like such   name    Chris    greeting    Hello my name is  name     equals  Hello my name is Chris    As per your last edit of your question I think the easiest thing you may be able to do that this point is to use a  heredoc   They aren t commonly used and honestly I wouldn t normally recommend it but if you want a fast way to get this wall of text in to a single string  The syntax can be found here  http   www php net manual en language types string php language types string syntax heredoc and here is an example    someVar    hello    someOtherVar    goodbye    heredoc    lt  lt  lt term This is a long line of text that include variables such as  someVar and additionally some other variable  someOtherVar  It also supports having  single quotes  and  double quotes  without terminating the string itself  heredocs have additional functionality that most likely falls outside the scope of what you aim to accomplish  term

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Use htmlspecialchars    Then quote and less   greater than symbols don t break your HTML tags

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Either escape the quote    text1   From time to   time       or use single quotes to denote your string    text1   From time to  time

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[php] Escaping quotation marks in PHP

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