title: PHP - String spanning multiple lines
body: <p>I'm fairly new to php. I have a very long string, and I don't want to have newlines in it. In python, I would accomplish this by doing the following:</p>
  
  <pre><code>new_string = ("string extending to edge of screen......................................."
      + "string extending to edge of screen..............................................."
      + "string extending to edge of screen..............................................."
      )
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Is there anything like this that I can do in PHP?</p>