Re: note 8933 added to Logical Operators

Understanding the difference between echo and print would have save much time and aggavation in the case below. This a known behavior: "print" returns a boolean on success, "echo" is a language construct and does not return a value. Therefore is no surprise that the constructs you are using failed w/ echo and succeded w/ print. This is also noted in a comment to the manual entry for "print", and in the PHP Knowledge base (php.faqts.com): http://www.faqts.com/knowledge-base/view.phtml/aid/1/fid/41 (The paragraphs above will be added to your note) --- tech@squiz.net wrote: > My brain still stings. > > The following conundrum has just devoured several > hours of my time. > I wanted to output a certain string if a variable > had a certain value. I tried: > > ($foo == "some value") && (echo ("some string")); > > I bravely offered it to PHP innumerable times, and > all I got was a lousy "Parse error". No one knew > what the problem was. > > When I finally tried: > ($foo == "some value") && (print ("some string")); > it worked flawlessly. > > Be warned. > > Echo evidently has issues. If you get a weird error > with echo (in this particular context, or > elsewheres) try print instead. > > > http://www.php.net/manual/language.operators.logical.php > > > > -- > PHP Notes Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > php-notes-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: > php-notes-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: > php-list-admin@lists.php.net > ===== --- Jesus M. Castagnetto (jcastagnetto@yahoo.com) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos - 35mm Quality Prints, Now Get 15 Free! http://photos.yahoo.com/