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PHP Build a Simple PHP Application Getting Started with PHP Your First PHP File

Posted by abdi ali
abdi ali
1,966 Points

Here's some code from a basic HTML file. Add a PHP command that would display the name of our website, Shirts 4 Mike hlp

php

example.php 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
    <h1><?php echo Shirts 4 Mike; ?></h1>
</body>
</html>
abdi ali
abdi ali
1,966 Points

help me to solve this problem guys!

Cosmin Cioaclă
Cosmin Cioaclă
21,339 Points
Cosmin Cioaclă
Cosmin Cioaclă
21,339 Points

Hi Ali,

You are almost there!

Echo needs a string so it can do its magic. You need to surround the text with single or double quotes.

echo "Shirts 4 Mike";
abdi ali
abdi ali
1,966 Points

thank you comsin i finally solved it

1 Answer

Jose Luis Lopez
Jose Luis Lopez
19,179 Points
Jose Luis Lopez
Jose Luis Lopez
19,179 Points

What a bout something like this????????? <!DOCTYPE html> <?php $name = 'Shirts 4 Mike'; ?> <html> <body> <h1><?php echo $name; ?><h1> </body> </html>

Cosmin Cioaclă
Cosmin Cioaclă
21,339 Points
Cosmin Cioaclă
Cosmin Cioaclă
21,339 Points

Are you going to need to use $name again on the page? If not, your code is more complex than it needs to be.