Re: Codebabes: PHP

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2014-04-29 15:38 GMT+02:00 Christoph Becker <cmbecker69@xxxxxx>:

> Kumar Saurabh Sinha wrote:
>
> > Difference between Language Construct & Functions:
> >
> > *Language Constructs*
> > Constructs are elements that are built-into the language and, therefore,
> > follow special
> > rules.
>
> ACK.
>
> >         Perhaps the most common of them is the echo statement, which
> allows
> > you to write data to the script’s output:
> >
> > echo 10; // will output 10
> >
> > It’s important to understand that echo is not a function and, as such, it
> > does not have
> > a return value. If you need to output data through a function, you can
> use
> > print()
> > instead:
>
> print is a language construct and not a function.  Try e.g.
>
>   call_user_func('print', 'foo');
>
> However, it's interesting that print nonetheless has a return value
> (which always is 1).
>


like "require" and "include" has too.


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