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PHP PHP Basics Daily Exercise Program String Manipulation

Dhaval Shah
Dhaval Shah
319 Points
Posted by Dhaval Shah
Dhaval Shah
319 Points

Please explain how the concatenation works and also this challenge

Please explain how the concatenation works and also this challenge

index.php 
<?php

$firstName = "Rasmus";
$lastName = "Lerdorf";
$fullName = $firstName.''.$lastName;
?>

2 Answers

Moinul Haq
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Moinul Haq
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 11,178 Points
Moinul Haq
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Moinul Haq
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 11,178 Points

You did everything right except you didn't add the space between the quotes(' ') to separate the two names. Concatenation adds multiple variables/ strings together.