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Atul Varma
4,285 PointsConfused with the quotation marks usage.. Help!!!!
Use the $fullname variable to display the following string to the screen. Use an escape character to add a newline to the end of the string. 'Rasmus Lerdorf was the original creator of PHP'
<?php
//Place your code below this comment
$firstName = 'Rasmus';
$lastName = 'Lerdorf';
$fullname = "$firstName $lastName" . 'was the original creator of PHP' . '\n';
?>
2 Answers
Benjamin Larson
34,055 PointsHi Atul -
First, you'll need to display the appropriate string to the screen using echo. At the moment, you're just storing the string into a variable, but not displaying it.
Second is that the newline character will only be properly escaped using a double quoted string.
It's a lot to learn at first...so many rules and quirks but it doesn't take long to adjust if you keep experimenting and practicing.
Antonio De Rose
20,885 Pointsuse the escape character with wrapped with double quotes, you were missing the space before 'w' in the word was, and was also missing the space in between $firstName and $lastName
<?php
$firstName = 'Rasmus';
$lastName = 'Lerdorf';
$fullname = $firstName . ' ' . $lastName;
echo $fullname . ' was the original creator of PHP' . "\n";
?>