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PHP

Posted by Aaron Boyse
Aaron Boyse
Courses Plus Student 1,924 Points

Concatenation in PHP

I am stuck on this code in my Beginner PHP course. I want to print out to the screen the first name, last name, "was the original creator of PHP" and use an escape character.

Can anyone show me where my code is wrong?

[code]

<?php

//Place your code below this comment $firstName = "Rasmus"; $lastName = "Lerdorf";

$fullName = $firstName." ".$lastName;

$fullName = $firstName . "\n" . $lastName ."\n". 'was the original creator of PHP.'; ?>

[/code]

1 Answer

philippulbrich
philippulbrich
11,975 Points

Hi Aaron,

That's almost true. Issue the command "echo" and use the newline character only at the end! Use doubleqoutes for the text to interpret the newline character. I've included the solution below.

I hope I could help you out.

<?php

$firstName = "Rasmus";
$lastName = "Lerdorf";
$fullName = $firstName . " " . $lastName;

echo $fullName . " was the original creator of PHP. \n";

?>
Aaron Boyse
Aaron Boyse
Courses Plus Student 1,924 Points

It does Philipp, I was saying echo $fullName = $firstName." ".$lastName." ". was the original creator of PHP.";

Glad you cleared that up for me.

Thank you