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PHP PHP Basics Daily Exercise Program String Manipulation

Posted by Olivia Jones
Olivia Jones
1,526 Points

PHP Basics: String Manipulation - 3 Objectives

Challenge 1 asks for 2 variable with values of 'Rasmus' and 'Lerdorf'.

Challenge 2 asks for these strings to be combined in a third string, to create "Rasmus Lerdorf". Here is my code:

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

However this comes up as incorrect with the following message:

Bummer! $fullName should equal Rasmus Lerdof

Is the problem the fact that 'Lerdorf' now needs to be changed to 'Lerdof', and if so this then creates a problme with 'Task 1'.

Any advice or a way to get around this?

index.php 
<?php

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

$fullName = '"' . $firstName . ' ' . $lastName . '"';

?>

1 Answer

andren
andren
28,558 Points
andren
andren
28,558 Points

The issue is that you append quote marks at the start and end of the name which are not necessary. If you just combine $firstName and $lastName with a space between them like this:

<?php
$firstName = "Rasmus";
$lastName = "Lerdorf";
$fullName = $firstName . ' ' . $lastName;
?>

Then your code will work.