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PHP PHP Basics Daily Exercise Program String Manipulation

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why

index.php
<?php

//Place your code below this comment
$firstName = 'Rasmus';
$lastName = 'Lerdorf';
$fullName = $firstName .' '. $lastName;
$fullName .= ' was the original creator of PHP.'."\n";

echo $fullName;

?>

2 Answers

Robert Bennett
Robert Bennett
11,927 Points

I think you are asking what is wrong with your code? Here is a code that works...

$firstName = 'Rasmus';

$lastName = 'Lerdorf';

$fullName = $firstName . ' ' . $lastName;

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

Alena Holligan
STAFF
Alena Holligan
Treehouse Teacher

I changed the quiz a little to hopefully be more clear. This code challenge is to make sure that you understand string variables, escape characters and concatenation.

$fullName should continue to equal "Rasmus Lerdorf"

$fullName = $firstName .' '. $lastName;

For the final step you should use the $fullName variable to display the string "Rasmus Lerdorf was the original creator of PHP." with a new line character at the end.