A line of code in PHP not understood

1

Hi everyone,

While studying PHP, I came across two codes that have the same result.

However, there is a line in the second example,echo $i;, that I could not understand its usefulness.

Besides, when I delete that line and change $i++ to echo $i++ the code produces the same result.

The code is from www.php.net
Here is a link to the lesson

<?php
/* example 1 */

$i = 1;
while ($i <= 10) {
    echo $i++;  /* the printed value would be
                   $i before the increment
                   (post-increment) */
}

/* example 2 */

$i = 1;
while ($i <= 10):
    echo $i;
    $i++;
endwhile;
?>

In short, why don’t we do this in the second example:

<?php
/* example 2 */

$i = 1;
while ($i <= 10):
    echo $i++;
endwhile;
?>
3

Thank you for your reply, but why have they coded:

echo $i;
    $i++;

??