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Kevin Parine
2,402 PointsWhy is this not displaying correctly?
What is it that I am doing that this is not displaying the correct function?
<?php
//Place your code below this comment
$firstName = "Rasmus";
$lastName = "Lerdorf";
$fullName .= "$firstName $lastName";
echo "'$fullName 'was the original creator of PHP.\n";
?>
2 Answers
Jacob Mishkin
23,117 PointsThere are a couple of issues going on.
One: you need to concatenate your variables by using the . operator. Using .= does not concatenate the two vars into two words, it concatenates it into one word you need a space between the first and last name.
Second: if you use a variable you do not apply strings tags to it. Write the variable then add in this case double quotes due to using \n.
Your on the right track, just a couple of changes are needed.
Kevin Parine
2,402 PointsThanks, I was able to sort it out.