print or echo?

[james2010]

I'm quite new to php and I was wondering if there are any specific times when you would need to use either print() or echo(), it seems like more of a personal preference thing to me, but does one of them have better performance or something?

[Anon]

Personal preference is pretty much it. There are small differences, but generally speaking they're only of interest to serious propeller-heads.

The differences are made explicit on the documentation pages for the two:
www.php.net/print and www.php.net/echo

As far as performance goes, the difference is so small as to be moot.

[Anon]

But there are some differences..
print is a kind of function and return something, not echo..

if you do for example
<?
...
$result = mysql_query($query,$db) or echo "error";
?>

you will get an error, but writing
<?
$result = mysql_query($query,$db) or print ("error");
?>
is correct...

Wacky