Title: [Plugin: Safe Function Call] Does it use 'echo' or '_e'?
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: Safe Function Call] Does it use 'echo' or '_e'?

 *  Resolved [Clifford Paulick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cliffpaulick/)
 * (@cliffpaulick)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-safe-function-call-does-it-use-echo-or-_e/)
 * Does it use ‘echo’ or ‘_e’?
    P.S. How much more overhead does this add compared
   to doing the condition checks myself, say 25 times (i.e. 25 different conditionals,
   possibly more actual functions)?
 * Thank you.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/safe-function-call/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/safe-function-call/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Scott Reilly](https://wordpress.org/support/users/coffee2code/)
 * (@coffee2code)
 * WordPress & Plugin Developer
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-safe-function-call-does-it-use-echo-or-_e/#post-2716469)
 * It uses `echo`. `_e()` is only really useful if it is utilized in conjunction
   with a textdomain, which can’t be parameterized.
 * It technically adds a slight bit more overhead. It essentially does the condition
   checks you’d do, but in order to accommodate passing along arbitrary arguments(
   making it flexible), it also uses `func_get_args()`. The extra overhead is quite
   minuscule and shouldn’t be noticeable. Even if being done 25+ times in a page.
 * With the plugin, you save in time writing the code, you write/see less code, 
   and have some flexibility afforded by some of the various methods provided by
   the plugin. But everyone’s perception of that value will vary.

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