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PHP PHP Basics Daily Exercise Program String Manipulation

Posted by Ryan Caracciolo
Ryan Caracciolo
1,206 Points

I am struggling with Displaying and adding a line break to my final string.

I am trying to display $fullName and add a line break to it as well. I am also confused as to if they want me to include, "Rasmus Lerdorf was the original creator of PHP." Or if that is just part of the example.

index.php 
<?php

//Place your code below this comment
$firstName = 'Rasmus';
$lastName = 'Lerdorf';
$fullname = $firstName . " " . $lastName;
echo = $lastName\n;
?>

3 Answers

Julian Gutierrez
Julian Gutierrez
19,201 Points
Julian Gutierrez
Julian Gutierrez
19,201 Points

Yes you are needing to echo out the full string "Rasmus Lerdorf was the original creator of PHP" by concatenating $fullname with "was the original creator of PHP".

Ryan Caracciolo
Ryan Caracciolo
1,206 Points

Thank you, Julian, for the response, I went back in and gave it a try. I am just struggling with this, if it is not too much trouble could you write it out for me. I'm just picking this stuff up better when I see it applied to something specific so its hard for me to go from the video to the quiz. Thank you!

Julian Gutierrez
Julian Gutierrez
19,201 Points
Julian Gutierrez
Julian Gutierrez
19,201 Points

You really are very close the final line is where you are running into some trouble.

For starters, echo doesn't need an assignment operator. Now we already have the string "Rasmus Lerdorf" in our $fullname variable so to create the final string output we need to add or concatenate $fullname with the rest of the string followed by your line break. 

<?php

//Place your code below this comment
$firstName = "Rasmus";
$lastName = "Lerdorf";

$fullname = $firstName . " " . $lastName;

echo $fullname . " was the original creator of PHP\n";
?>
Ryan Caracciolo
Ryan Caracciolo
1,206 Points
Ryan Caracciolo
Ryan Caracciolo
1,206 Points

Thank you so much, Julian! This was very helpful. When I went back in I did include the operator in echo and I thought that I needed to create a space between $fullname and was the original creator of PHP so I had it written

'''echo = $fullname . " " . 'was the original creator of PHP\n"

Thank you again!