title: Is there a way in PHP to escape a block of text?
body: <p>Is there a way to tell PHP that this whole block of text is a pure text string (to escape the block and ignore everything inside)? 
  eg. something like:</p>
  
  <pre><code>$myText= PHP_Magical_Start_String(
   ( for () This" ~' var is ´ my `&amp;lt; |'| $complicated/"/ text{ echo }\ 
        "b&amp;gt;bold&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt; *#text.§§ ) i==0. etc 
  )PHP_Magical_End_String;
  </code></pre>