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Daniel Knoflicek
4,696 PointsWhy does this not work in teh coding excercise
<?php
//Place your code below this comment
$firstName = "Rasmus"; $lastName = "Lerdorf"; $fullName = $firstName + $lastName;
echo " $fullName was the original creator of PHP.\n"
?>
<?php
//Place your code below this comment
$firstName = "Rasmus";
$lastName = "Lerdorf";
$fullName = $firstName + $lastName;
echo " $fullName was the original creator of PHP.\n"
?>
3 Answers
Felipe Giovanni de Moura Santos
23,702 PointsWhat's up man...
We concatenate strings in PHP with a dot. Your code shouldn't have passed the second challenge (if you preview it instead of clicking on 'check work' you'll see that $fullname is echoing 0 ).
<?php
//Place your code below this comment
$firstName = "Rasmus";
$lastName = "Lerdorf";
$fullName = $firstName . ' ' . $lastName;
echo "$fullName was the original creator of PHP.\n"
?>
You may also use double quotes when defining $fullname (just like you did while echoing):
<?php
$fullname = "$firstName $lastName";
?>
Daniel Knoflicek
4,696 Pointsok thanks that worked... hmm php at all is completly new to me... and i didnt catch this way of combining 2 variables into one...
Daniel LittleThunder
6,975 PointsIt would seem to me that this should work to output the same thing:
<?php
$firstName = "Rasmus";
$lastName = "Lerdorf";
$fullName = "$firstName "."$lastName "."was the original creator of PHP.\n";
echo $fullName;
?>
As well as this:
<?php
$firstName = 'Rasmus';
$lastName = 'Lerdorf';
$fullName = $firstName .' '.$lastName;
$fullName .= " was the original creator of PHP.\n";
echo $fullName;
?>
But...I guess it won't accept those because it's changing the actual value of the $fullName variable? Seems to me to be an easier way to echo, but I am not familiar with PHP, so maybe there is an issue with adding to the value of the $fullName variable instead of adding the text to the echo command? I don't know.
Felipe Giovanni de Moura Santos
23,702 PointsYes, The variable $fullName was created to store a full name, compound by a $firstName and a $lastName.
Adding strings to it to display a message will go against its purpose/use. What you could do is create a different variable, like $message for example, and use it for displaying the message. You'll see that it'll pass the challenge because it did not ignore the instructions.
<?php
//Place your code below this comment
$firstName = "Rasmus";
$lastName = "Lerdorf";
$fullName = "$firstName $lastName";
$message = "$fullName was the original creator of PHP.\n";
echo $message;
?>