What is the difference between echo and print?

[tresmom5]

I see them both used, but yet to figure out what the difference is. I have bought two books on php since I first posted on this site and feeling a little less confused. I see that there is a lot of different ways to do the same thing. Are echo and print the same thing or do they have different purposes?

Thanks,
Teresa

[jatar_k]

give this thread a try and see if it helps

Benchmarking PHP text output [webmasterworld.com]

[Adrian2k4]

echo is faster than print:
[dynacker.dotgeek.org...]

this is because print returns a int value and echo returns no value / a void value.

otherwise there is no difference between print and echo. if your splitting hairs considering scipt parsing speed then you should stick to echo.

best regards
adrian

[tresmom5]

Thank you!