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PHP PHP Basics Daily Exercise Program String Manipulation

Create a third variable named fullName that combines the $firstName and $lastName variables to make the string Rasmus Le

please help me out i dont know what to do

index.php
<?php
$firstName ='Rasmus';
$lastName ='Lerdorf';
$fullName   = "$firstName " . "$lastName ";
//Place your code below this comment

?>

1 Answer

Jason Anders
MOD
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,858 Points

Hey Felix.

You're on the right track, and the syntax looks great. The hint from the error message often points to the problem, so here, the reason the task is not passing is that you have included a additional space after $lastName. Just fix that up and the rest is good to go.

Nice work! :) :dizzy: