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PHP

Posted by Shaun Kelly
Shaun Kelly
35,560 Points

Stuck on php question! Can anyone tell me the answer then explain there answer? thanks

Create a variable called fullName and assign it a value equal to the concatenation of the firstName variable, a space, the middleName variable, a space, and the lastName variable.

Here is the code i have:

<?php

$firstName = "Mike";
$middleName = "the";
$lastName = "Frog";
$fullName = "firstName " . "middleName " . "lastName";





echo "The designer at Shirts 4 Mike shirts is named ____";

?>

1 Answer

Jason Anello
Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 Points

You are assigning the string values "firstName", "middleName", and "lastName" to $fullName not the variables. You don't have the dollar signs in front of the variable names. So they are evaluated as strings and not variables.

$fullName is going to equal firstName middleName lastName

This would work:

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

but I don't believe the difference between using double quotes and single quotes is covered in the project. When using double quotes in php, variables are evaluated. With single quotes, they are not.

That could be simplified to this too:

$fullName = "$firstName $middleName $lastName";

The other way that would be more inline with what is taught is to simply concatenate all the variables together along with spaces between.

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