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I am wondering about the practical and real advantages and reasons for using echo instead of print to write output to the screen.

In many areas of my code I have this sort of thing:

PRINT("<b>".$course_id."</b>");

I understand that print returns a value whereas echo doesn’t, however i’m interested to know if there is any real reason to replace the instances in my code (and there are a few unfortunately) of print with echo?

Is it just bad practice to use print in these sort of scenarios or is there reason and benefit to avoiding it?

I am using PHP 5.3.13.

Answer 1

From phpbench, echo() is faster than print(). But I think nobody will notice if your code is a few microseconds slower.