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PHP PHP Basics Daily Exercise Program String Manipulation

Matthew Frost
Matthew Frost
9,855 Points
Posted by Matthew Frost
Matthew Frost
9,855 Points

Why is this PHP Basics challenge failing?

I must be missing something, but when I am getting an error to say that Task 2 is no longer passing. I have tried re-writing the code for Task 2 in multiple ways and it passes that task, but then I cannot get Task 3 to pass. What am I doing wrong?

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;

?>

1 Answer

andren
andren
28,558 Points
andren
andren
28,558 Points

The issue is that in Task 2 you are asked to set $fullname to "$firstName $lastName", in task 3 you change the contents of $fullname by adding " was the original creator of PHP.\n" to it. This breaks task 2 because $fullname now contains something besides just "$firstName $lastName".

In task 3 you are not supposed to change the $fullname variable at all, you are just meant to use it as you echo out the sentence. Like this:

<?php

//Place your code below this comment
$firstName = 'Rasmus';
$lastName = 'Lerdorf';

$fullName = "$firstName $lastName";

echo "$fullName was the original creator of PHP.\n";
?>
Matthew Frost
Matthew Frost
9,855 Points
Matthew Frost
Matthew Frost
9,855 Points

Ah I see. Thanks so much!