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Ioan Ionkov
Courses Plus Student 6,921 PointsIssue regarding "PHP basics" course task submitting.
Currently since yesterday, there is an issue I encounter upon submitting a task in the String manipulation section of the course. Upon submitting the third solution on the test, I get the message "Oops! It looks like Task 1 is no longer passing. Get Help" And this is regardless of how quick I complete the tasks, did it under 30 seconds and it still appeared. This happens if the code is correct, I tested it with intentionally wrong code and it displayed a proper error.
2 Answers
Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse TeacherHi loan! There are a couple of problems here. First, you've introduced a syntax error by including the \ instead of a concatenation symbol which is a period/full stop. Just as you did between $firstName and $lastName. But even if we correct that, you've missed the part of the instructions that say to display the result of the $fullName together with the string they give. We use the echo statement to display information to the page. Currently, you're trying to write over your $fullName variable with additional string information. The code that you had in step 2 should remain unaltered. You should only be adding additional lines of code at this point. Let's take a look at an example:
Also, we achieve a new line by using \n.
<?php
$dog1 = "Rex";
$dog2 = "Tom";
$myDogs = "$dog1" . " and " . "$dog2";
echo "$myDogs sleep all day long.\n";
?>
Give it another shot with these tips in mind, but let me know if you're still stuck!
Ioan Ionkov
Courses Plus Student 6,921 PointsYes, I will gladly provide. Thank you! Here is the link: https://teamtreehouse.com/library/php-basics-2/daily-exercise-program/string-manipulation And just to be sure, I am going to provide you with the code for all 3 tasks.
<?php
//Place your code below this comment
$firstName = "Rasmus";
$lastName = "Lerdorf";
$fullname = "$firstName " . "$lastName" \"was the original creator of PHP";
?>
is for the first
<?php
//Place your code below this comment
$firstName = "Rasmus";
$lastName = "Lerdorf";
$fullname = "$firstName " . "$lastName"
?>
is for the second
and
<?php
//Place your code below this comment
$firstName = "Rasmus";
$lastName = "Lerdorf";
$fullname = "$firstName " . "$lastName" \"was the original creator of PHP";
?>
is for the third
Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse TeacherJennifer Nordell
Treehouse TeacherHi! Would it be possible to get a link to the challenge and could you please post the code that you've tried thus far? There are a couple of reasons you might be getting this error message that are not the result of a technical difficulty. One reason you might get this error is if you've introduced a syntax error into your code. But another reason you might get this error is if you're overwriting a previous value of a variable when that was not explicitly asked for by the challenge. Speed has nothing to do with this message