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PHP Build a Simple PHP Application Adding a Contact Form Concatentation

Martin Bornman
PLUS
Martin Bornman
Courses Plus Student 12,662 Points

PHP

In the code challenge about concatenation. First I put the $lastName = "Frog";

$fullName = $firstName . "" . $middleName . "" . $lastName;

This is wrong.Why??

concatenation.php
<?php

$firstName = "Mike";
$middleName = "the";
$lastName = "Frog";

$fullName = $firstName . "" . $middleName . "" . $lastName;

echo "The designer at Shirts 4 Mike shirts is named ___";

?>

2 Answers

Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points

I think it want's spaces in the name. Currently you have the names concatenated without any space, so if you echoed $fullName it would be MiketheFrog.

Add your spaces into your concatenation (hint: " " instead of "") and it should be good.

doloresquinonez
doloresquinonez
19,093 Points

Hi Martin,

I think is because you have no space between the name.

For example:

$fullName = $firstName . " " . $middleName . " " . $lastName;

you see the space between each variable.