How can you efficiently handle escaping characters in PHP to avoid syntax errors?

When dealing with special characters in PHP strings, it is important to properly escape them to avoid syntax errors. One common way to handle this is by using the backslash (\) character before the special character to escape it. This tells PHP to treat the character as a literal character rather than part of the syntax. 

// Example of escaping characters in PHP
$string = "This is a string with a \"double quote\" and a \'single quote\'";
echo $string;

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escaping characters syntax errors PHP htmlentities addslashes

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