Chapter 6 Handling Input and Output

6.1 How to Output Messages and Results to a User's Screen?

A flowchart uses the oblique parallelogram and the reserved word “Write” to display a message or the final results to the user's screen.

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where arg1, arg2, and arg3 can be variables, expressions, constant values, or alphanumeric values enclosed in double quotes.

The oblique parallelogram that you have just seen is equivalent to the following flowchart fragment.

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In PHP, you can achieve the same result by using the echo statement. Its general form is

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