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abdul faiz mohd jayramie eng
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abdul faiz mohd jayramie eng
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Posted by abdul faiz mohd jayramie eng
abdul faiz mohd jayramie eng
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PHP forms..........1 hour past by without solution

Hmm....i wonder what was the error.

Question Was: "Create a variable called fullName and assign it a value equal to the concatenation of the firstName variable, a space, the middleName variable, a space, and the lastName variable."

My Final Answer:

<?php

$firstName = "Mike";

$middleName = "the";

$lastName = "Frog";

$fullName = $firstName ."\n";

$fullName = $fullName . $middleName ."\n";

$fullName = $fullName . $lastName;

echo $fullName;

echo "The designer at Shirts 4 Mike shirts is named ____";

?>

I tested in the preview, it does appear to be "Mike the Frog" with a space in between. What was the error?

i also tried these method:

$fullName = $firstName . $middleName . $lastName;

also tried adding "\n" in between. all method fail.

4 Answers

Mike Croft
Mike Croft
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Mike Croft
Mike Croft
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$fullName = $firstName . " " . $middleName . " " . $lastName;

This should work, you need to add the spaces as you can see above, hope this helps

abdul faiz mohd jayramie eng
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abdul faiz mohd jayramie eng
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abdul faiz mohd jayramie eng
abdul faiz mohd jayramie eng
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i did tried that solution. i was not aware that space between them was sensitive case. the spaces for . " " . in the tutorial video was not so obvious. hope they'll fix this. Thanks btw. Merry Christmas!

Mark Flavin
Mark Flavin
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Mark Flavin
Mark Flavin
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Not to further confuse matters but as long as you use double quotes ("") you can actually make the code a bit cleaner.

$fullName = "$firstName $middleName $lastName";

Randy Hoyt
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Randy Hoyt
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Randy Hoyt
Randy Hoyt
Treehouse Guest Teacher

It looks like the code you originally posted was all correct except for the "\n"; you just needed to replace each "\n" with a " ". The "\n" creates a line break (instead of a space), so your PHP variable actually had a value like this:

Mike
the
Frog

You are right that the preview is confusing! In the preview, it actually looked correct because the browser ignores the line breaks and displays it as a space. I think I'll modify the code challenge to display a more helpful message in that case.