How can developers ensure that strings are identical when comparing them in PHP, based on the forum discussion?

When comparing strings in PHP, developers should be mindful of potential issues such as whitespace characters or different character encoding. To ensure that strings are identical when comparing them, developers can use the `trim()` function to remove any leading or trailing whitespace and the `mb_strtolower()` function to convert both strings to lowercase. This way, the strings will be compared without considering differences in case or whitespace. 

$string1 = "Hello World";
$string2 = " hello world ";

if (mb_strtolower(trim($string1)) === mb_strtolower(trim($string2))) {
    echo "The strings are identical.";
} else {
    echo "The strings are not identical.";
}

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