A string is series of characters, where a character is the same as a byte. This means that PHP only supports a 256-character set, and hence does not offer native Unicode support. See details of the string type.Note: string can be as large as up to 2GB (2147483647 bytes maximum)Syntax ¶A string literal can be specified in four different ways:single quoteddouble quotedheredoc syntaxnowdoc syntax (..