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What is the difference between echo and print?

If anyboyd knows, do tell me.
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Last Update: September 07, 2009 Asked by: Ashwani

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Submitted by: maurani

echo() can take multiple expression bt print() cant

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September 28, 2006 05:20:01

Venu Gopal.M

RE: What is the difference between echo and print?

echo is a construct.echo takes multiple parameters

print is also a construct but print does not take multiple parameters

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October 04, 2006 02:18:05

Ramesh

RE: What is the difference between echo and print?

echo :-

- Is a command only.

- Faster than Print.

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October 04, 2006 02:19:49

Ramesh

RE: What is the difference between echo and print?

echo:-

- Is a command only.

- Faster than print

print:-

- Is a function.

- It will return true(1) or false(0) or some values.

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October 12, 2006 10:03:07

Mahendra Choudhary

RE: What is the difference between echo and print?

Main difference between echo() and print() is that echo is just an statement not a function and doesn't return's value or it just prints a value whereas print() is an function which prints a value and also it returns value.

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November 02, 2006 02:26:52

rashmi

RE: What is the difference between echo and print?

echo is a statement and print is a function.

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November 04, 2006 04:37:28

Bhupal

RE: What is the difference between echo and print?

Echo and Print are used for the same functionality printing of data.But there is echo is not a function we cannot pass arguments where as print is a function we can pass arguments .Thank you Bye.

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November 09, 2006 03:32:22

anas

RE: What is the difference between echo and print?

hi .i am anas.i am also preparing for PHP.basically diff. of echo and print is echo have multiple arguments and in print function have only one argument.

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December 13, 2006 12:05:22

Mohamed

RE: What is the difference between echo and print?

echo is a statement an does not return valueprint is a function and returns value

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December 15, 2006 03:59:06

ankita

RE: What is the difference between echo and print?

print can be used as part of a more complex expression where echo cannot.echo is marginally faster since it doesn't set a return value.

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December 21, 2006 00:10:54

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Raj

RE: What is the difference between echo and print?

echo : just output the content

print : it returns true for successful output and false for unsuccessful

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