PHP Program to Print Hello World

This PHP Hello World tutorial will teach you how to use the PHP echo and print statements to display output in a web browser. The primary purpose of this example program is to explain to beginners how to print on PHP.

Display String as Output

Example:

The following example shows how to use an echo statement to display "Hello World!".

<?php
echo 'Hello, World!';
?>

Program Output:

Hello, World!

Display HTML Code as Output

Example:

The following example shows how to use echo statements to display an HTML Code.

<?php
echo "<h1>Page Heading</h1>";
print "<p style='font-weight:bold; color:blue;'>This is a paragraph text styled with CSS.</p>";
?>

Program Output:

The print and echo both are language constructs, not functions. These two statements are substitutes and do exactly the same, except that the print statement always returns 1.