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MUZ140075 Melody A. Nyatsine
6,052 PointsChallenge Task 3 of 3 Finally, echo the following string inside of the if statement: 'Hi, I am Mike!'
whats wrong with my answer
<?php
$name = "Mike";
$name = "Mike"; if(name == "Mike")
{ echo = "Hi, I am Mike!"; }
?>
2 Answers
Julian Gutierrez
19,201 PointsA few things are wrong here, you've declared and assigned you variable correctly but you only need to do it once. I see it twice in your code. Your echo statement doesn't need the assignment operator/equal sign.
Eric Ewers
13,976 PointsYou are almost there. As said above, you only need to declare $name once and you don't need an equal sign with an echo statement. Also, I would suggest keeping your code formatted or indented so that you can read it more clearly.
$name = "Mike";
if ($name == "Mike") {
echo "Hi, I am Mike!";
}