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PHP4 - Difference between print and echo
i have a problem to differentiate print and echo please help me with practical examples.basically i don't understand how print return value?????
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Virtually none. I think echo may be negligibly faster. Print always returns a value of 1, unlike echo but I don't know what that might be worth.
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One is a language construct and the other is a function. You can actually accept the return value of print, unlike echo. However, there's functionally no difference. It's all in how PHP parses it and handles it, they work out to the same thing for most applications.
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None of them is a function, they're both language constructs. The print construct just happens to be an expression, so it yields a value.
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