echo Output one or more strings &reftitle.description; voidecho stringarg1 string... Outputs all parameters. No additional newline is appended. echo is not actually a function (it is a language construct), so you are not required to use parentheses with it. echo (unlike some other language constructs) does not behave like a function, so it cannot always be used in the context of a function. Additionally, if you want to pass more than one parameter to echo, the parameters must not be enclosed within parentheses. echo also has a shortcut syntax, where you can immediately follow the opening tag with an equals sign. Prior to PHP 5.4.0, this short syntax only works with the short_open_tag configuration setting enabled. foo. ]]> The major differences to print are that echo accepts an argument list and doesn't have a return value. &reftitle.parameters; arg1 The parameter to output. ... &reftitle.returnvalues; &return.void; &reftitle.examples; ]]> &reftitle.notes; ¬e.language-construct; A benefit to passing in multiple arguments over using concatenation in echo regards the precedence of the period operator in PHP. If multiple arguments are passed in, then parentheses will not be required to enforce precedence: With concatenation, the period operator has a higher precedence than both the addition and ternary operators, and so parentheses must be used for the correct behaviour: &reftitle.seealso; print printf flush Heredoc syntax