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Casey Choi
540 PointsAnything wrong with these codes below. $fullName = $firstName . "\n" . $midleName . "\n" . $lastName;
Anything wrong with these codes below. I was told to put spaces among those variables, but it doesn't go thru.
$fullName = $firstName . "\n" . $midleName . "\n" . $lastName;
<?php
$fullName = $firstName . "\n" . $midleName . "\n" . $lastName;
$lastName = "Frog";
$firstName = "Mike";
$middleName = "the";
echo "The designer at Shirts 4 Mike shirts is named ____";
?>
2 Answers

Ken Alger
Treehouse TeacherCasey;
Welcome to Treehouse!
You just need spaces, not newline characters. Remove the \n
references and you should be good. Also, you need to define the $fullName
variable after the other variables. Until then it won't know what $firstName
, $middleName
, or $lastName
are or are equal to. Your $fullName
variable assignment would then look like:
$fullName = $firstName . ' ' . $middleName . ' ' . $lastName;
Happy coding,
Ken

Rich Bagley
25,868 PointsHi Casey,
You have the $fullName
variable set before the other 3 which means it won't be able to take their values as they haven't been set yet.
I also noticed you're missing a 'd' from $middleName
in the concatenation line.
Your line under the 3 variables would then look something like:
$fullName = $firstName . ' ' . $middleName . ' ' . $lastName;
Hope that helps
-Rich

Casey Choi
540 PointsThank you very much!

Rich Bagley
25,868 PointsNo problem, happy to help :)
-Rich
Casey Choi
540 PointsCasey Choi
540 PointsThank you very much! I love the teamtreehouse!