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PHP PHP Basics Daily Exercise Program String Manipulation

Posted by Amanda Bengtsson
Amanda Bengtsson
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Invalid answer

I can't get the answer right and have tried every combination, could I get the answer for it?

index.php 
<?php
//Place your code below this comment
$firstName = "Rasmus";
$lastName = "Lerdorf";
$fullName = $firstName .' '. $lastName;


echo $fullName. ' was the original creator of PHP'."\n";
?>

1 Answer

Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse Teacher

Hi there! You're literally one character away. Take a look at the Bummer! message:

Bummer! I do not see a period.

They mean inside the string and before the new line character.

You wrote:

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

But they want:

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

Note the period (not the concatenation operator) inside the string after PHP and before the new line.

Hope this helps! :sparkles: