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October 19th, 1999, 02:34 PM

miguelgarcia

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I'm new to PHP and am curios if there is any functional difference between a "print" and an "echo".

October 27th, 1999, 04:46 AM

Ulf.Wendel

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Hi Miguel,

they're very simmilar. But echo is not a function, it's a language construct. It does not give you a return value. print() does. echo accepts several arguments. print() one.

Ulf

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