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PHP PHP Basics Daily Exercise Program String Manipulation

john paul
john paul
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Posted by john paul
john paul
3,191 Points

I cannot work out what is going wrong here? I get an error message that task 2 is not parsing.

I cannot work out what is going wrong here? I get an error message that task 2 is not parsing.

index.php 
<?php

//Place your code below this comment

$firstName = "Rasmus";
$lastName = "Lerdorf";
$fullName = $firstName . " " . $lastName . " " . "was the original creator of PHP.\n";
echo $fullName;
?>

2 Answers

Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
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Hi there! At the end of Task 2 the value stored in $fullName should be Rasmus Lerdorf. In step three you are overwriting that value. Now $fullName no longer contains just Rasumus Lerdorf but rather, "Rasmus Lerdorf was the original creator of PHP\n", and that's not his name :smiley:

Instead, echo out the string directly without replacing the $fullName variable.

For instance:

$myName = "Jennifer";
echo "Hi there, John! My name is $myName";

Hope this helps! :sparkles:

john paul
john paul
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john paul
john paul
3,191 Points

Hi Jennifer, that makes a lot of sense, I can see where I want wrong now.

Many thanks

best

John