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PHP PHP Basics Daily Exercise Program String Manipulation

Posted by Evan MacAlpine
Evan MacAlpine
7,173 Points

PHP test errors

Hi. I keep on getting errors for this test and I'm unsure what the issue is. The first two steps always pass, but once I get to the third part of the test, the second step begins to fail. I've tried to do the concatenation on a single line, multiple lines, etc. But I get the same error.

index.php 
<?php

//Place your code below this comment
$firstName = "Rasmus";
$lastName = "Lerdorf";
$fullname = "$firstName ";
$fullname .= "$lastName";
$fullname .= "was the original creator of PHP";
$fullname .= "\n";

?>
Christian Andersson
Christian Andersson
8,712 Points

You're missing a space between the $lastName and "was". So add a space on one of those. So the output currently is:

Rasmus Lerdorfwas the original creator of PHP
             ^
missing space
Evan MacAlpine
Evan MacAlpine
7,173 Points

Thanks Christian Andersson! I don't think that's the issue that's causing the error though. Still getting a message that says step 2 is now failing.

1 Answer

Joe Schultz
Joe Schultz
6,191 Points
Joe Schultz
Joe Schultz
6,191 Points

The only way I could get this to work is to concatenate a space between the $firstName and $lastName. Also you need to echo out the final statement. It should look something like this:

<?php
$firstName = "Rasmus";
$lastName = "Lerdorf";
$fullname = "$firstName"." "."$lastName";
echo $fullname ." was the original creator of PHP\n";