In PHP do i need to escape backslashes?

Question

I think this may be a stupid question, but I am quite confused whether I need to escape backslash in PHP.

echo \'Application\\Models\\User\'; prints Applicat         


        

Answer 1

In single quoted strings only the escape sequences \\ and \' are recognized; any other occurrence of \ is interpreted as a plain character.

So since \M and \U are no valid escape sequences, they are interpreted as they are.