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PHP PHP Basics Daily Exercise Program String Manipulation

Posted by Joshua Ouma
Joshua Ouma
20,865 Points

How to put spaces in PHP

I need help.

index.php 
<?php

//Place your code below this comment
$firstName = "Rasmus";
$lastName = "Lerdorf";
$fullName = "$firstName" +' '+ "$lastName";
?>

2 Answers

Ezra Siton
Ezra Siton
12,644 Points
Ezra Siton
Ezra Siton
12,644 Points

Your code will throw error

A non-numeric value encountered

use concatenation operator ('.')

PHP Docs: http://php.net/manual/en/language.operators.string.php

<?php

//Place your code below this comment
$firstName = "Rasmus";
$lastName = "Lerdorf";
$fullName = $firstName.' '.$lastName;
?>
Robert Bennett
Robert Bennett
11,927 Points
Robert Bennett
Robert Bennett
11,927 Points

In PHP it is the . to concatenate or join to stings together to make a sentence.
. Concatenation $txt1 . $txt2 Concatenation of $txt1 and $txt2

<?php echo "hello" . "world"; ?>

Concatenate Assignment is .= Concatenation assignment $txt1 .= $txt2 Appends $txt2 to $txt1.

<?php $txt1 = "Hello"; $txt2 = " world!"; $txt1 .= $txt2; echo $txt1; ?>