One long print statement, or multiple small print statements?

[MarkB423]

Just wondering what is faster:

one LONG print statement, or multiple, small print statements...

i.e. LONG:

print("blah blah blah " .
"blah blah blah blah " .
"more stuff here and " .
"this continues for about " .
"30 to 50 lines of code.");

OR

print("blah blah blah ");
print("blah blah blah blah ");
print("more stuff here and ");
print("this continues for about ");
print("30 to 50 lines of code.");

Of course, a good bit of parsing is required in here, which is why I am not using straight HTML.... I would assume the former option is more efficient, as it only requires one function call, however too much could be too much...

[GBahle]

It does not matter. The overhead you get from multiple function calls shouldn't be noticeable.
Also, I don't know if PHP uses the same technology as Java Server Pages as far as direct HTML code in a page is concerned, but if it does, using plain HTML isn't an advantage, since it would be converted to print statements anyway.