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PHP PHP Basics Daily Exercise Program String Manipulation

Why does this keep saying task 2 is no longer working??????

I just don't know why the editor keeps saying that task 2 is no longer passing for some reason. I have been racking by brain and testing me nerves for two days on this code. I have tried copying other peoples work that have strangely worked for them but never for me... Please help on this!!!!

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

?>

2 Answers

Martin Balon
Martin Balon
43,651 Points

Hi Ramadan,

Step one:

<?php

//Place your code below this comment

$firstName = 'Rasmus';
$lastName = 'Lerdorf';

?>

Step two:

<?php

//Place your code below this comment

$firstName = 'Rasmus';
$lastName = 'Lerdorf';

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

?>

Step three:

<?php

//Place your code below this comment

$firstName = 'Rasmus';
$lastName = 'Lerdorf';

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

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

?>

As you can see you assigned the whole string to variable $fullName - that's why the task n.2 was no longer passing. Then you echoed out two strings instead just one.

Oh wow!, Sometimes it's the simplest things that get under our skin. Thank you!!