note 104977 deleted from function.print by danbrown

Note Submitter: gk dot kaam at gmail dot com ---- It's because echo & print dont *return* string value, so you can't use them with the concatenation operator ( . ) It's like when you do a $bar = array(); echo 'FOO > ' . print_r($bar); The print_r($bar) will be printed and THEN the 'FOO >' whill be echoed That's because print_r as echo or print dosnt return value. The fact that the ouput starts from the right to the left is most likely linked to the way php handles concatenation, i guess.