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Chris Gauthier
Courses Plus Student 6,434 PointsChallenge task 3 of 3 for php basics
Im being asked to use 2 variables, $firstName and $lastName. Im being asked to concatenate these 2 variables onto a $fullName variable and then contactenate a string on to that. My code is below.
It compiles just fine on my local php dev setup, but not on the teamtreehouse compiler.
Can someone explain what Im doing wrong?
<?php
//Place your code ow this commen
$firstName = 'Rasmus';
$lastName = 'Lerdorf';
$fullName = $firstName . ' ' . $lastName;
$fullName .= ' was the original creator of PHP\n';
echo $fullName;
?>
3 Answers
Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse TeacherHi there! It's important to note when doing these challenges to try not to do anything that they don't explicitly ask for. The value stored in $fullname should be the concatenation of the first name and the last name, which you did splendidly!. But then you went on to further alter the variable to contain the value of the first name and the last name and a bit about how he is the original creator of PHP.
Imagine that I added this instruction: do this without changing the value stored in $fullname.
Hint: this is a great place to use double quotes to unwrap the value held in fullname.
I think you can get it with these hints, but let me know if you're still stuck!
Chris Gauthier
Courses Plus Student 6,434 PointsGreat, worked very well, thanks!
Jeremy Antoine
15,785 PointsAnother hint. It doesn't say you cannot create another variable to display the string. This will prevent you from changing the value of the $fullname variable.
Jacob Anderson
7,888 PointsJacob Anderson
7,888 PointsI can't figure it out... What would be the code that I would have to put for the last step? I've been stuck for about an hour and a half.