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PHP PHP Basics Daily Exercise Program String Manipulation

Posted by Weronika Ryfka
Weronika Ryfka
885 Points

How do I combine $firstName = 'Rasmus'; and $lastname = 'Lerdorf'; to make $fullName = Rasmus Lerdorf?

String Manipulation

2 Answers

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,269 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,269 Points

Joining strings together is called "concatenation", which was explored in detail in the video on Combining Strings. You may want to review that video.

The operator symbol for concatenation is a period ("."). It essentially acts like "glue" sticking two strings together to make one longer one. You can combine as many as you want in a single statement, and they can be a mix of literals (things in quotes) and variables containing strings.

I'll bet you can get it now, without an explicit "spoiler".

Johnathan Shoff
Johnathan Shoff
6,877 Points
Johnathan Shoff
Johnathan Shoff
6,877 Points 
<?php
$firstName = 'Rasmus';
$lastName = 'Lerdorf';

$fullName = $firstName.' '.$lastName;
?>

Exactly as Steven Parker mentioned, but figured I would provide a demonstration of how you would specifically concatenate strings in PHP.