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PHP PHP Basics Daily Exercise Program String Manipulation

Luis Magaña
Luis Magaña
13,042 Points
Posted by Luis Magaña
Luis Magaña
13,042 Points

Not sure what I'm doing wrong here, using dot concatenation and variables with no quotes??

Not sure what I'm doing wrong here, using dot concatenation and variables with no quotes?? Tasks wants us to create a third variable using the two previous variables we just made.

index.php 
<?php

//Place your code below this comment
$firstName = 'Rasmus';
$lastName = 'Lerdorf';

$fullName = $firstName . $lastName;
?>

2 Answers

Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse Teacher

Hi there! You're doing well, but the best hint is in the Bummer message! Take a look:

Bummer! It looks like you forgot to add a space between the first and last name.

Right now, you're concatenating the first name and the last name, but you've not included a space anywhere in there, The current value of $fullName is not "Rasmus Lerdorf" but rather "RasmusLerdorf". You will need to account for the missing space.

Hope this helps! :sparkles:

edited for additional hint

Also, there is no requirement here to use concatenation. You are free to use the double quotes to expand the values of the variables in place :smiley:

Luis Magaña
Luis Magaña
13,042 Points
Luis Magaña
Luis Magaña
13,042 Points

I'll take a hard look at your hint and I got through this with your help, thanks!