RE: [PHP] echo vs print

If you search archives you'll find some blody battles on this kind of issues, there are some slight differences but work both well and are very similar in performance - so this is the question of style. You see, Professional PHP Programming was written by 5 young guys (including Sascha) and that is why the yprobably coulnd't stick to one single style : couse they have some deep preferences. Anyway, "<?php" , "<?" are quite same too, except that php3 used to have "<?php" while older versions use mainly "<?", this is just about compatibility. }; and } same things, it should be }; but the parser was then simplified to understand } and so everyone uses this. just like : if($me && $you) // is same as: if($me and $you) if($me || $you) // is same as: if($me or $you) or like $var = 1; if($var) { echo $var; } else { echo 'Var is not set, sorry'; } // is equal to $var = 1; echo $var ? $var : 'Var is not set, sorry'; It is generally all about your style, Cheers, Maxim Maletsky -----Original Message----- From: Todd Cary [mailto:todd@aristesoftware.com] Sent: Friday, February 09, 2001 12:26 PM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] echo vs print I have "Profession PHP Programming" and I see that echo() and print() are used alomst interchangeably. When should each one be used? Also, I see "<?php" and "<?" used. Is there a preference? And how about "};" versus "}" to end a block? I see both. Todd -- Todd Cary Ariste Software todd@aristesoftware.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net