Answer / krupa

echo and print are different

Answer / satish

echo is language construct. print is function. echo is
faster. langauge constructs are faster than functions,
always. echo may tek mutiple arguments as well. echo
doesn't give return value.

Answer / arvind pippal

echo is the multiple funtion,print does not multiple
parameters. It is also generally argued that echo is
faster, but usually the speed advantage is negligible, and
might not be there for future versions of PHP.
advantages as formatted output, but it’s the slowest way to
print out data out of echo, print.

Answer / nidz

echo and print both are not functions but a
construct...print can be used as function ...Can anybody
tell me what is construct ?

Answer / pushp

Echo has slight performance advantage because it does not
return value.

Answer / rajiv_cogzidel

echo() doesn't return anything. But print() return true or
false.
You can give output for print() using echo(). You can notice
here print having true. So it give output 1.
Because print is a function. So it return true or false. But
echo is an statement. So it will not.
Ex:-
echo(print(d));
Output:-
d1

But you can't do this using print like this

Ex:-
print(echo(d));

Output:-
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_ECHO in
E:\xampp\htdocs\rajiv\valid.php on line 119


And other thing is echo() allow multiple strings using
separated by comma(,).
Here are examples

using echo()
ex:-
echo "Rajiv","\n","K.C","\n","\nHello World!","\nAgain Hello
World!";

output:-
Rajiv K.C Hello World! Again Hello World!

using print()
ex:-
print "Rajiv","\n","K.C","\n","\nHello World!","\nAgain
Hello World!";

output:-
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ',' in
E:\xampp\htdocs\rajiv\valid.php on line 130

Some one says we cannot use double quotes in single quote.
But it's not true. It will work. Here are examples

print 'print"hai"hoo';
echo 'echo"hai"hoo';

These two give output.

Answer / vinay sachan

There are many differences in print() and echo() :-

1-echo is unformatted whereas print is formatted.

2-echo() can take multiple expressions, Print cannot take multiple expressions.
ex.-
<?php
$name="Vinay";
echo "Name is $name";
//Value is Vinay

print 'Name is $name';
//Value is $name
?>

3-Print return true or false based on success or failure whereas echo just does what its told without letting you know whether or not it worked properly.

Answer / surendra.kandimalla

Echo:echo as a function we can pass only one argument.But echo as command we can pass any number of arguments.echo will not return anything.
echo("echo as function<br>");
echo"arg1","arg2","arg3","<br>";

Print:we can pass only one argument for print as function or command.print returns boolean value.
print("print function<br>");
$b=print"print command<br>";
echo $b,"<br>";

Answer / kunal

print() is a function but echo is statement

Answer / kroonal

echo() have multiple arguments whereas print() have one
arguments. echo() have not any return value whereas print()
return 0 or 1 as per success

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