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PHP PHP Basics Daily Exercise Program String Manipulation

Posted by Nivesh Sharma
Nivesh Sharma
Courses Plus Student 1,941 Points

String Manipulation ....what am I doing wrong here?

Please help....

index.php 
<?php

//Place your code below this comment

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

1 Answer

Grace Kelly
Grace Kelly
33,990 Points
Grace Kelly
Grace Kelly
33,990 Points

You're almost there, when we concatenate strings, we do not need quotes around the variable names, like so:

$fullName = $firstName . " " . $lastName;

Hope that helps!!

Nivesh Sharma
Nivesh Sharma
Courses Plus Student 1,941 Points

Thank You ....