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PHP PHP Basics (Retired) PHP Data & Structure PHP Variables

theresa warren
theresa warren
935 Points
Posted by theresa warren
theresa warren
935 Points

How to echo's Mike"s name??

I can't figure out what I am doing wrong (i have tried adding a ; to the end of $name; and taking it out (as seen) Nothing is working. Thanks!!

index.php 
<?php
  $name = "Mike";
?>

<?php echo $name ?>

4 Answers

Perry Eising
Perry Eising
12,663 Points

It may be the case that your variables cannot be seen by all areas of the code as they are out of scope. Instead of having <?php ?> twice, have one <?php ?> statement and put all the code in there - with that missing semicolon.

jne
jne
12,613 Points
jne
jne
12,613 Points

Try this:

<?php
 $name = "Mike"; 
echo $name;
?>

I think you forgot the ";"