php echo print

With PHP, there are two basic ways to get output: echo and print.

In this tutorial we use echo

or print in almost every

example. So, this chapter contains a little more info about those two output

statements.

PHP echo and print Statements

echo and print are more or less the same. They are both used to output data

to the screen.

The differences are small: echo has no return value while print has a return value of 1 so it can be used in

expressions. echo can take multiple parameters (although such usage is rare)

while print can take one argument. echo is marginally

faster than print.

The PHP echo Statement

The echo statement can be used with or without parentheses:

echo or echo().

Display Text

The following example shows how to output text with the echo

command (notice that the text can contain HTML markup):

Example

<?php

echo "<h2>PHP is Fun!</h2>";

echo "Hello world!<br>";echo "I'm about to learn PHP!<br>";

echo "This ", "string ", "was ", "made ", "with multiple parameters.";

?>

Display Variables

The following example shows how to output text and variables with the echo

statement:

Example

<?php$txt1 = "Learn PHP";$txt2 = "W3Schools.com";

$x = 5;$y = 4;

echo "<h2>" . $txt1 . "</h2>";echo "Study PHP at

" . $txt2 . "<br>";echo $x + $y;?>

The PHP print Statement

The print statement can be used with or without

parentheses:

print or print().

Display Text

The following example shows how to output text with the print

command (notice that the text can contain HTML markup):

Example

<?php

print "<h2>PHP is Fun!</h2>";

print "Hello world!<br>";print "I'm about to learn PHP!";

?>

Display Variables

The following example shows how to output text and variables with the

print statement:

Example

<?php$txt1 = "Learn PHP";$txt2 = "W3Schools.com";

$x = 5;$y = 4;

print "<h2>" . $txt1 . "</h2>";

print "Study PHP at " . $txt2 . "<br>";print $x + $y;?>