What is wrong with echoo

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sorry i know this is a basic question, but i have been trying for hours and i can't seem to think what is wrong with this.

HTML

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<h1>My first PHP page</h1>
<?php echo "<p>Hello World!</p><br>";?>
</body>
</html>

the output gives.

My first PHP page
Hello World!
";?>

why ';?> appears.

What I have tried:

<!DOCTYPE html>
    <html>
    <body>
    <h1>My first PHP page</h1>
    <?php echo <p>Hello World!</p><br>
    </body>
    </html>

gives output correctly,but it seems that syntax is wrong according to w3schools.

Posted 3-Jan-18 15:15pm

Member 13605837

Updated 3-Jan-18 17:03pm

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Member 13605837 4-Jan-18 6:30am

ok,but why echo output ;?> symbols

EZW 9-Jan-18 1:53am

Is this in a PHP file format and run on a PHP enabled server?

Member 13605837 10-Jan-18 3:41am

yes

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Peter_in_2780 · Accepted Answer · 2018-01-03T15:25:00

Quoting from the PHP manual,

echo — Output one or more strings

Description

void echo ( string $arg1 [, 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.

I have highlighted the critical few words.