How can the use of double backslashes in network paths affect PHP functionality and how can this be resolved?

Using double backslashes in network paths can cause issues in PHP because backslashes are escape characters in PHP strings. To resolve this, you can either use single forward slashes in the network path or escape the backslashes with an additional backslash. Example PHP code snippet:

$networkPath = 'C:\\\\server\\share\\file.txt';
echo $networkPath;