What if you do this:

<a href="https://www.google.com/maps/@{{ e($myvar->lat) }},{{ e($myvar->lng) }}" target="_blank">View Full Size Map</a>

I'm not sure if the e() is in this laravel version.

Edit: It used to be in Laravel 3, but can't find anything in the Laravel 4 docs. Laravel 3 docs link: http://three.laravel.com/docs/views/html#entities

Thanks for your response but unfortunately that doesn't work :) The '@' symbol escapes the curly braces so that you would actually see the braces and inner content in the browser - in the case that you wanted to actually display text that contained those curly braces.

It's just unfortunate that Google in their wisdom, decided to use the '@' symbol within their urls.

No problem, it's an easy workaround but would be nice to see a way of preventing that behaviour when necessary, without resorting to '<?php' in a blade template.

Doh, how dumb of me, of course! Thanks dberry :)