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PHP PHP Basics (Retired) PHP Data & Structure PHP Variables

Rick Colella
Rick Colella
7,327 Points
Posted by Rick Colella
Rick Colella
7,327 Points

What is wrong with this challenge answer?

I'm baffled as how why it keeps saying the answer is wrong. I've gone back and reviewed the previous video and copied the code by character. I even tried adding html, body and doctype into the code to similar a real php doc but nothing.

Am I doing something wrong in this code or is it a bug?

The challenge: "Now echo Mike's Name To The Screen." Response: "Bummer! I am not seeing the word "Mike" in the output. Did you echo something different?"

index.php 
<?php
  $name = "Mike";
?>

<?php echo $name ?>

3 Answers

Abe Layee
Abe Layee
8,378 Points
Abe Layee
Abe Layee
8,378 Points

All you have to do is pass the $name to the echo like this which will echo Mike on the screen.

<?php
  $name = "Mike";
    echo $name;  // this is calling Mike variable. 
?>
Robert Richey
Robert Richey
Courses Plus Student 16,352 Points

Yep. The important part here is that the challenge will only accept one php code block.