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PHP Build a Basic PHP Website (2018) Adding a Basic Form Concatenation

Posted by Naison Masiyashe
Naison Masiyashe
2,736 Points

what is wrong with my code

where am i getting wrong ,on the preview is displaying correctly

index.php 
<?php

$title = "Dr.";
$firstName = "David";
$lastName = "Bowman";
$fullName = $title . " " . $firstName . " " . $lastName;



echo "The lead character from 2001: A Space Odyssey is named  " . $fullName ."!";

?>

1 Answer

Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse Teacher

In a word: space. You've managed to include an extra space in your string and now on Treehouse it's causing an error in regards to the evaluation of the string. You have one too many spaces between named and the closing quotes. Take a look:

echo "The lead character from 2001: A Space Odyssey is named " . $fullName ."!";
Naison Masiyashe
Naison Masiyashe
2,736 Points

thanks that helped