PHP 5 echo and print Statements

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In PHP there are two basic ways to get output: echo and print.

In this tutorial we use echo (and print) in almost every example. So, this chapter contains a little more info about those two output statements.

PHP echo and print Statements
There are some differences between echo and print:

echo – can output one or more strings
print – can only output one string, and returns always 1
Tip: echo is marginally faster compared to print as echo does not return any value.

The PHP echo Statement
echo is a language construct, and can be used with or without parentheses: echo or echo().

Display Strings

The following example shows how to display different strings with the echo command (also notice that the strings can contain HTML markup):

Example

	<?php
	echo "<h2>PHP is fun!</h2>";
	echo "Hello world!<br>";
	echo "I'm about to learn PHP!<br>";
	echo "This", " string", " was", " made", " with multiple parameters.";
	?>

Display Variables

The following example shows how to display strings and variables with the echo command:

Example

	<?php
	$txt1="Learn PHP";
	$txt2="vshakya.in";
	$cars=array("Volvo","BMW","Toyota");
	echo $txt1;
	echo "<br>";
	echo "Study PHP at $txt2";
	echo "My car is a {$cars[0]}";
	?>

The PHP print Statement
print is also a language construct, and can be used with or without parentheses: print or print().

Display Strings

The following example shows how to display different strings with the print command (also notice that the strings can contain HTML markup):

Example

	<?php
	print "<h2>PHP is fun!</h2>";
	print "Hello world!<br>";
	print "I'm about to learn PHP!";
	?>

Display Variables

The following example shows how to display strings and variables with the print command:

Example

	<?php
	$txt1="Learn PHP";
	$txt2="vshakya.in";
	$cars=array("Volvo","BMW","Toyota");
	print $txt1;
	print "<br>";
	print "Study PHP at $txt2";
	print "My car is a {$cars[0]}";
	?>