PHP Data & Structures Challenge 2 of 2

Question

How is this wrong?

index.php

<?php

$name = Mike;

?>

<?php echo $name ?>

Answer 1 · 2014-12-04T20:50:27Z

December 4, 2014 8:50pm

Hi David,

Actually you should avoid DRY (don't repeat yourself) to add twice PHP and forgot semi-colon, let's modify like below:

<?php

$name = "Mike";

echo $name;

?>

Answer 2 · 2014-12-04T20:54:15Z

December 4, 2014 8:54pm

David;

You are assigning the variable $name to an undefined constant, Mike. To get the results I believe you are wanting you need:

$name = "Mike";

Hope it helps,

Ken

Answer 3 · 2014-12-06T02:42:25Z

December 6, 2014 2:42am

Mike is a string and needs to be wrapped in quotes.

Also you need to terminate each line of code with a ;

<?php

$name = "Mike";
echo $name;

?>

Answer 4 · 2015-03-24T21:38:43Z

March 24, 2015 9:38pm

I am having the exact same issue. I tried like this...

<?php 

$name = "Mike";
echo $name;

?>

I get the error, "Bummer! I am not seeing the word "Mike" in the output. Did you echo something different?"

I also tried this and got the same error.

<?php 

$name = "Mike";
echo $name;

?>

<php? echo $name ?>

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