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PHP PHP Basics Daily Exercise Program String Manipulation

how to combine the string

how to combine two string in one line.

index.php
<?php

//Place your code below this comment
$firstName = 'Rasmus';
$lastName = 'Lerdorf';
$fullNmae = 'Lerdorf' . 'Rasmus;

?>

1 Answer

Chris Shaw
Chris Shaw
26,676 Points

Hi seng longha,

In the case of this challenge, we need to $firstName and $lastName to create the $fullName variable. Instead of writing the strings out manually which isn't concatenation, we need to use these variables to join the names together with a space.

To achieve this we need to accomplish the following:

  1. Introduce a string between our variables to create a space;
  2. Prepend and append our $firstName and $lastName variables
<?php

//Place your code below this comment
$firstName = 'Rasmus';
$lastName = 'Lerdorf';
$fullName = $firstName . ' ' . $lastName;

?>

Here we can see we take our variables and concatenate them with a string containing only a space which would result in: Rasmus Lerdorf.

NOTE: You also had a typo in $fullName, the letters a and m were in the wrong order.

Happy coding!