print vs echo

OldTroll63

I'm learning out of a book called Sams Teach Yourself PHP MySQL and Apache in 24 hours. The books shows in almost all of it's code samples and lessions to use the "print " command when it wants to print something in the browser window. So far it hasn't worked on any of the examples without major syntax corrections(missing quotations and such). I have browsed through quite a few code examples on the web, and I noticed that "echo" is the most common command for the job. Is there somewhere out there that has a listing of the proper syntax for both the print and or echo commands, to help keep me from having to search the web everytime I need to check syntax on a lesson from this book?
Thanks in advance
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edcellgavin

http://ph.php.net/manual/en/function.print.php
http://ph.php.net/manual/en/function.echo.php

leatherback

There is a small difference, in that print is a function, and returns 1 after printing, and echo is not:

http://www.faqts.com/knowledge_base/view.phtml/aid/1/fid/40

justsomeone

I've found it very helpful to adopt a standard approach to print() and echo() usage.

I almost always use print() in my code. I only use echo() when I'm looking to display bits and pieces which I don't necessarily want to remain in the code when it's finished - eg when I want to display the value of a variable during debugging etc.

Then when I'm wrapping up the code, I can just do a grep for any echos and remove them.

OldTroll63

Thanks all...that gives me a place to go. Now I'll go try using the right quotes in the proper places and see if that works.

Thanks again
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