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

Posted by Kellan Doom
Kellan Doom
1,622 Points

Help

I am asked to echo the name "Mike" and I have tested this code on my localhost and it works just fine, why will it not pass?

index.php 
<?php

$name = "Mike";

?>

<h1><?php echo $name; ?></h1>

2 Answers

Rich Bagley
Rich Bagley
25,869 Points

Hi Kellan,

Your code is fine but the challenges can get quite specific with what they ask for.

You don't need the h1 tags for the challenge so your code should look something like this:

<?php
  $name = 'Mike';
  echo $name;
?>

Hope that helps.

-Rich

Kellan Doom
Kellan Doom
1,622 Points

Thank you for the help!! -Kellan

Rich Bagley
Rich Bagley
25,869 Points

No problem :)

thomascawthorn
thomascawthorn
22,986 Points
thomascawthorn
thomascawthorn
22,986 Points

This code should work:

<?php
$name = "Mike";
echo $name;
?>

The code challenges can be quite picky, so if it doesn't ask for html markup (the h1 tags) I would leave them out.

But yes - what you have is correct.