Ron's Guide

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I thought you used print() to write stuff, I have seen several different ways and I'm getting confused....

print() and echo() do the same thing, it's just a matter of personal preference.. you can use whichever one you're most comfortable with

Thanx for the help Ron, as you can see I'm a n00b

No problem, gotta start somewhere, right?

Think it's time for me to start learning php

I love your website Ron, it's brilliant

Hey Peter, Thanks Hope you'll get some use out of these tutorials

You can also use print ""; (without parenthesis).

Also to print out a new line (to clean up the source file when its viewed through a browser):

print "
";

You can use the same technique to print out a quotation mark (" the following code would print out a quote:

echo "\"";

The first quote starts the string, the slash tells PHP to print out the next character no matter what it is (and not to print out the \), the second quote is printed out and the third ends the string.

hey your tutorial helped but when I saved the *.php it just took it as the name and tacked .txt on the end and then my webhost accepted it as a text file.

Eric, sorry for the late reply. Try saving the document in notepad as "whatever.php" (with the double quotes).