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PHP PHP Basics Unit Converter Manipulating Numbers

Posted by Austin Miller
Austin Miller
637 Points

What am I doing wrong???

Trying to Multiply a int variable and a floating variable and display it without changing either variables vaule

index.php 
4<?php

//Place your code below this comment
$integerOne = 1;

$integerTwo = 2;

$integerOne = $integerOne + 5; 
$integerTwo = $integerTwo - 1;
$floatOne = 1.5;
$integerOne * $floatOne = $results;
echo $results

"?>

2 Answers

tomandrews
tomandrews
13,183 Points
tomandrews
tomandrews
13,183 Points

The variable name always has to come first.

It should say:

$results = $integerOne * $floatOne;

Alex Watts
Alex Watts
8,396 Points
Alex Watts
Alex Watts
8,396 Points

Hello Austin,

Your method is a valid one, however you accidentally placed the variable $results at the wrong end of the statement (see below):

$results = $floatOne * $integerOne;
echo $results;

This works fine, but I simply echoed the entire statement like this:

echo $floatOne *  $integerOne;

Hope this helps :)