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Generate a PHP short-syntax string array with configurable quotes, variable name, layout, and PHP-aware escaping.
About this tool
PHP arrays are common in configuration, allowlists, migrations, and test data. Hand-formatting becomes risky when values contain apostrophes, backslashes, or dollar signs.
Single-quoted and double-quoted output follow different PHP escaping rules, including dollar-sign escaping in interpolated double-quoted strings.
FAQ
Either form works. Enter items or $items and the output will contain one leading dollar sign.
PHP interpolates variables inside double-quoted strings, so escaping preserves the literal dollar sign.
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