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Kevin Parine
2,402 Pointsstill no...
why not
<?php
//Place your code below this comment
$firstName = "Rasmus";
$lastName = "Lerdorf";
$fullName .= "$firstName $lastName";
echo $fullName. ' was the original creator of PHP.'."\n";
?>
2 Answers
Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse TeacherHi Kevin Parine! The problem actually lies in the declaration of the $fullName variable. To be honest, I'm not sure how it made it past the second step. When you first set up a variable, you assign it a value. This makes it no longer "undefined". Because you are using the .= as a concatenation operator instead of assigning the value $firstName $lastName to it, you are actually concatenting $firstName lastName onto something that is undefined.
The solution is to simply delete the .(period/full stop) from in front of the equals.
// You wrote
$fullName .= "$firstName $lastName";
// Should be
$fullName = "$firstName $lastName";
Hope this helps!
Kevin Parine
2,402 PointsThanks, your explanation was clear. I see why I was wrong to try and concatenate it.