title: Laravel's preference on two single quotes than double quotes
body: <p>So I got a fresh copy of Laravel on their website. Trying to wrap around my heads on how to see the default webpage that comes with it, until I figured out that it's on /public.</p>
  
  <p>Now, Laravel throws me the following error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Unhandled Exception
  
  Message:
  
  Error rendering view: [home.index]
  
  syntax error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Upon checking the location on storage/views/some-random-hash-going-on-here, it appears that the templating language uses two pairs of single-quotes, rather than a pair of double quotes. Example: <code>&lt;?php echo  HTML::style(''laravel/css/style.css'') ; ?&gt;</code>, instead of <code>&lt;?php echo  HTML::style("laravel/css/style.css") ; ?&gt;</code>.</p>
  
  <p>Checking the locally stored docs too also throws the same thing. </p>
  
  <p>Is there a server setting that I can use so that PHP will just detect it as double quotes rather than single-quotes, or am I required to edit each place to match the latter code presented earlier?</p>
  
  <p>I'm on WAMPServer, if that helps.</p>
  
  <p><strong>BONUS QUESTION:</strong> Can I just place an .htaccess file that rewrites the URL to remove the '/public' part of the URL instead of going through the hosts file?</p>