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PHP PHP Basics Daily Exercise Program String Manipulation

daniel Couzens
daniel Couzens
4,759 Points
Posted by daniel Couzens
daniel Couzens
4,759 Points

task 3?!

I though this would solve my issue but no joy! Can anyone help?

index.php 
<?php

//Place your code below this comment

$firstName = 'Rasmus';
$lastName = 'Lerdorf';

$fullName = "$firstName $lastName";
$fullName .= "was the original creator of PHP.";
$fullName .= "\n"; 

echo $fullName;
?>

1 Answer

Corey Cramer
Corey Cramer
9,453 Points
Corey Cramer
Corey Cramer
9,453 Points

You are awful close but if you stop and think about it for a minute if you wanted to show this person's first name a second time on a page it wouldn't make complete sense right? Because you have his name and then some other stuff after it. What you're really after is this:

<?php

//Place your code below this comment

$firstName = 'Rasmus';
$lastName = 'Lerdorf';
$fullName = "$firstName $lastName";

echo $fullName . " was the original creator of PHP.\n";

This way you can also echo this without it having that he was also the creator of PHP the second time

<?php
echo $fullName . " has a really awesome first name.\n";