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PHP PHP Basics Daily Exercise Program String Manipulation

Bára Paulátová
Bára Paulátová
3,583 Points
Posted by Bára Paulátová
Bára Paulátová
3,583 Points

Help - the quiz won't let me finish. Keeps repeating the Task no 1 is no longer passing, even if I start all over again.

Is it because my code is wrong? I checked twice with the previous video and it seems ok. Could it be a bug in the system?

Thanks for your help. b.

index.php 
<?php

//Place your code below this comment

$firstName = 'Rasmus';
$lastName = 'Lerdorf';

$fullName = $firstName . ' ' . $lastName;

$string_one = $fullName
$string_one .= ' was the original creator of PHP.';
$string_one .= "\n";

echo $string_one;

?>

2 Answers

Samuel Zhen
Samuel Zhen
33,571 Points

I think your code is fine, it works. Maybe they just want you to do it this way, not building the string one by one.

$string_one  = "{$fullName} was the original creator of PHP.\n";
Bára Paulátová
Bára Paulátová
3,583 Points
Bára Paulátová
Bára Paulátová
3,583 Points

Samuel, thanks for you answer .. it worked ! .. still do not know why, since I understood that it is both the same and even when viewing the output it looked the same. Still thanks thou! You helped me complete the challenge :)

Samuel Zhen
Samuel Zhen
33,571 Points

Yeah, I think that is one of coding challenge flaw. Can't blame them though, since there are many ways to solve a problem so it's kinda hard to check for all solutions. But since the string we want to echo is just a simple one-line text, I think this solution is enough to solve it.