Output statement

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

Output:

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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 'Tutorialink.com<br />';
    print 'Hello world!<br />';
    print 'PHP is easy<br />';
    print "I'm about to learn PHP!<br />";
?>

Output:

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Difference between echo and print Statements

There are some differences between echo and print:

echo	print
echo statement can be used with parentheses echo( ) or without parentheses echo.	Print statement can be used with parentheses print( ) or without parentheses print.
echo can pass multiple string separated as ,	using print can doesn't pass multiple argument.
echo doesn't return any value.	print always return 1.
echo is faster then print.	it is slower than echo.

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