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William Marsh
7,575 PointsCombining data in a string. My Code is not working for this task?
1) Use the $fullName variable
2) Display the following string to the screen.
Rasmus Lerdorf was the original creator of PHP.
3) Use an escape character to add a newline to the end of the string.
<?php
//Place your code below this comment
$firstName = "Rasmus";
$lastName = "Lerdorf";
$fullName = $firstName . ' ' . $lastName;
$fullName .= ' was the original creator of PHP.';
$fullName .= "\n";
echo $fullName;
?>
2 Answers
Connor Walker
17,985 PointsThis challenge wants you to print "Rasmus Lerdorf was the original creator of PHP." to the screen but without changing the value of the variables you have already created. To do this all you have to do is concatenate the string while echoing it, like this:
<?php
$firstName = "Rasmus";
$lastName = "Lerdorf";
$fullName = $firstName . ' ' . $lastName;
echo $fullName . " was the original creator of PHP. \n";
?>
Shane Oliver
19,977 PointsYou could also take a more modern approach to building strings in PHP using interpolation
<?php
$firstName = "Rasmus";
$lastName = "Lerdorf";
$fullName = "{$firstName} {$lastName}";
echo "{$fullName} was the original creator of PHP. \n";
?>
William Marsh
7,575 PointsWilliam Marsh
7,575 PointsGreat it works now! Thanks Connor.