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PHP PHP Basics Daily Exercise Program Conditionals

Posted by Ivan Cetter
Ivan Cetter
Courses Plus Student 826 Points

Help please

<?php $studentOneName = 'Dave'; $studentOneGPA = 3.8;

$studentTwoName = 'Treasure'; $studentTwoGPA = 4.0;

//Place your code below this comment if($studentOneGPA == 4.0) { echo "$studentOneName made the Honor Roll"; } else { echo "$studentOneName . 'has a GPA of' . $studentOneGPA"; } if($studentTwoGPA == 4.0) { echo "$studentTwoName made the Honor Roll"; } else { echo "$studentTwoName . 'has a GPA of' . $studentTwoGPA"; } ?>

index.php 
<?php
$studentOneName = 'Dave';
$studentOneGPA = 3.8;

$studentTwoName = 'Treasure';
$studentTwoGPA = 4.0;

//Place your code below this comment
if($studentOneGPA == 4.0) {
  echo "$studentOneName made the Honor Roll";
} else {
  echo "$studentOneName . 'has a GPA of' . $studentOneGPA";
}
if($studentTwoGPA == 4.0) {
  echo "$studentTwoName  made the Honor Roll";
} else {
  echo "$studentTwoName . 'has a GPA of' . $studentTwoGPA";
}
?>

1 Answer

Matthew Bilz
Matthew Bilz
15,829 Points
Matthew Bilz
Matthew Bilz
15,829 Points

I would say that in your else statements, you need to look at your double quote and single quote concatonation formatting.

i.e. for your first else statement:

else {
  echo $studentOneName . " has a GPA of " . $studentOneGPA;
}