"echo" does not show output when called from page php template

[dlen]

Dear forists,

I wanted to echo some strings with a simple echo "bla bla"; statement from within a page template. While this works in _main.php and _init.php, I did not get it to work from a page php-template, like "gallery-page.php". 

There is no error message. Everything else works as expected.

This is not an important issue, but I'd like to find some explanation for this, just to not have think about it longer.

Thx for any productive hint...

[DaveP]

Does your page file do any other echoes, or does it prepare output for another file to actually do the echoing? It might be the file appended automatically to each template through the PW template configuration. Quite often this is the case but not necessarily.

[millipedia]

If you're using Markup Regions as your template strategy then make sure you're acually outputing your code into a valid region otherwsise it's going to be discarded (that's fooled me before).