--- title: "PHP Syntax and Echo or Print" description: "Here we will look on some of the function of strings:" author: "Royce Roy" published: 2016-06-04 updated: 2019-01-12 canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/articles/12152/php-syntax-and-echo-or-print category: "php" tags: ["php"] reading_time: 2 minutes --- # PHP Syntax and Echo or Print ##### How to Write PHP Code? A PHP script starts with . It can be placed anywhere in the program. First we will start with a simple PHP code to print “This is my first PHP program”. The extension of the file is given as .php. ``` ``` Result: This is my first PHP program. **Note:** echo is used to give the output. ##### Comments in PHP A comment is the portion of aprogration which only meant for human reader.Its only purpose is to read by someone who is looking to your program. Comments can be used to: 1- Let others understand what you are doing 2- Remind yourself what you did. ``` ``` ## \ ##### PHP is Case sensitive Yes PHP is case sensitive. Try Out yourself: ``` ”); print(“Variable capital is $Text
”); ?> ``` ##### Result: Variable capital is 50 Variable capital is Echo/Print In PHP echo and print both are used to display output.Both of them more or less are same. The main difference between echo and print is that: Echo does not return any value but print return value 1 in expression. Let’s see some examples: ##### Display text using echo: ``` ``` Output: “Hello world”\ ##### Display Variable using echo ``` ``` ##### Output: 9\ ##### Display text using print: ``` "; ?> ``` ##### Output: “Hello world”\ ##### Display Variable using print: ``` ``` Output: 9 --- Original Source: https://www.mindstick.com/articles/12152/php-syntax-and-echo-or-print Copyright © MindStick Software Pvt. Ltd. This Markdown version is provided for developers, AI systems, and offline reading.