Comments on: PHP Echo Vs Print

By: abhijeet jadhav

abhijeet jadhav — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 04:53:37 +0000

if
$V=123;
echo $v;

what is o/p?

By: Mohamed Ismail

Mohamed Ismail — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 10:29:58 +0000

really i am not expecting this much of explantion for diffrence between echo and print when i started to search. very very useful. Thanx

By: Juan Giordana

Juan Giordana — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 21:36:07 +0000

It would be better for newcomers to use single quotes in the examples.

By: Pim

Pim — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 13:10:43 +0000

In addition to the difference between print and echo, I am interested in the difference between printing or echoing on the one hand and falling out of PHP code on the other.
So that would be

(PHP processing here); echo “some plain text”; (more PHP processing);

versus

(PHP processing here); ?>some plain text

I can't see much difference in performance, but what are other arguments for or against?

By: bundyxc

bundyxc — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 08:50:18 +0000

@bw: print is a language construct. I’m curious though… under what circumstance would print/echo return boolean false?

By: Anthoni Raj

Anthoni Raj — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:11:55 +0000

now i know the difference bitween print and echo…

By: Vo Thanh Liem

Vo Thanh Liem — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:16:46 +0000

i knew which i should use now. This article really useful to me. Thanks!

By: bw

bw — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:52:04 +0000

Thanks for insight but I’m still confused: is print a function or not? I’m new to PHP but having learned C++ and Java, I thought only functions had return values. And according to the PHP book I’m reading, print returns boolean values.

By: Grand Poobah

Grand Poobah — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 21:02:20 +0000

Great info! Just what I was wondering myself. One thing I’m wondering about is adding the parenthesis to the code. Is there ever any benefit in using it with either echo or print?

Like this…

1. echo (“Some Text”);

Or…

2. echo “Some Text”;

Since neither echo nor print is a function it seems to be a waste, and yet I see coders doing it all of the time.

By: janis

janis — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 01:01:13 +0000

Nice article, thank u