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

Posted by Benjamin Casalino
Benjamin Casalino
3,533 Points

very frustrated, not sure what I'm doing wrong? <?php $name ="Mike"?> <?php echo = "Mike"?>

PHP basics part 2, is asking to echo mikes name to the screen?

index.php 
<?php $name ="Mike"?> 

<?php echo = "Mike"?>
Benjamin Casalino
Benjamin Casalino
3,533 Points

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

out of all the answers that is the only one that worked. not sure if its an issues with workspaces or im still a noob? :) thanks everyone!

4 Answers

Patrizia Lutz
Patrizia Lutz
1,449 Points
Patrizia Lutz
Patrizia Lutz
1,449 Points

You can't assign a value to echo, which is a PHP function that outputs a string (or multiple strings).

http://php.net/echo

You should declare the variable $name and assign the value "Mike". Then use echo to print it out.

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

or 

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

You can also concatenate strings and variables like so: 

<?php echo 'Hi, my name is ' . $name . '.'; ?>
//=> Hi, my name is Mike.
David Tonge
David Tonge
Courses Plus Student 45,640 Points

I moved your answer to answer so it could be selected as "best answer" I realized I was missing a semi-colon in my answer.

Jeff Lemay
Jeff Lemay
14,268 Points
Jeff Lemay
Jeff Lemay
14,268 Points

KEEP EVERYTHING IN A SINGLE PHP BLOCK! This question comes up often. There should really be an instruction added to the code challenge.

But you also have some other issues...

  • When you combine the two statements into a single php block, you'll need to close each with a semi-colon (well, technically, you only need to close the first one where you set the name variable)
  • You are not echoing the variable properly. You tried echoing just a string, but you don't use an equal sign for echoing variables/strings.
<?php
$name = "Mike"; 
echo $Mike;
?>
Benjamin Casalino
Benjamin Casalino
3,533 Points

thank you for responding! this objective is driving me crazy haha, i get what your saying but unfortunately this didnt work in workspaces.

Jeff Lemay
Jeff Lemay
14,268 Points
Jeff Lemay
Jeff Lemay
14,268 Points

Oops, it should be echo $name

David Tonge
PLUS
David Tonge
Courses Plus Student 45,640 Points
David Tonge
David Tonge
Courses Plus Student 45,640 Points

You almost had it. You created the variable some instead of typing "mike" every time you're able to just call on the variable. 

<?php $name ="Mike";

echo $name; ?>
Benjamin Casalino
Benjamin Casalino
3,533 Points

ahhh thank you so much!!

David Tonge
PLUS
David Tonge
Courses Plus Student 45,640 Points
David Tonge
David Tonge
Courses Plus Student 45,640 Points

If you look at all the answers they're basically the same thing. I think it may be how you entered your answer.