title: How to concatenate strings with function calls while using echo?
body: <p>I want to use the values returned from two function calls in my echo'ed html string.    </p>
  
  <p><code>&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="the_permalink()"&gt;the_title()&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;</code></p>
  
  <p>The following works fine:</p>
  
  <pre><code>echo '&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="';
  echo the_permalink();
  echo '"&gt;';
  echo the_title();
  echo '&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;';
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>... but how do I get them all in one single statement?</p>