simple echo and variable strings

[reggie_styles]

hey all,

first time working with php and learning the simplest of the simple.

I'm a little confused with using concatenation.

I'm trying to get this simple echo statement to work.

<? php

$firstName = "Bob"
$lastName = "Jones"
$email = "[e-mail]"

echo "Hello, my name is".$firstName."".lastName."any my e-mail is".$email;

?>

The desire is obviously to render the statement:

Hello, my name is Bob Jones and my e-mail is [e-mail]

except it appears as

Hello, my name is Bob Jonesand my e-mail [e-mail]

So, the concatenation worked with the first string and the two variables but not with the second string and third variable.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

[planetsim]

The way it was displayed was correct to the way it was coded. Try this if you want the desired output

<?php

$firstName = "Bob"
$lastName = "Jones"
$email = "[e-mail]"

echo "Hello, my name is ".$firstName." ".lastName." any my e-mail is ".$email;

?>

You forgot to add spaces, concatenation does not add spaces for you.

[bradgrafelman]

Sure it did, it worked just fine. You just didnt add a space before the word "and" in the string.

[reggie_styles]

Thanks for the replies. I have one additional question.

How come when I didn't put a space in the first string after the word "is", a space was rendered?

[Houdini]

I thought I saw some code flaws but could be wrong you could use this and check my way of seeing what I think I saw.
You should have something like this:

<?php
$firstName = "Bob";
$lastName = "Jones";
$email = "[e-mail]";
echo "Hello, my name is ".$firstName." ".$lastName." and my e-mail is ".$email."<br /><br />";
echo "Using just variables it shows like this. My name is $firstName $lastName and my email is $email!!!";
?>

but you posted this:

<? php//there is a space here

$firstName = "Bob"//no semicolon to close the statement
$lastName = "Jones"//same here
$email = "[e-mail]"and also here

echo "Hello, my name is".$firstName."".lastName."any my e-mail is".$email;put the space after is and inside the "" and before the [B]any [/B](should that be and, grammer checking) and after the [B]is[/B]

?>

it could be that you did not copy and paste the code but just wrote what was close, but as I see it you should have had a parse error right on line 2 because of the <? php (with a space in there).

[bradgrafelman]

Or just do..

echo "Hello, my name is $firstName $lastName and my e-mail is $email";

[reggie_styles]

Sorry, I didn't paste the code, I just typed it out. Yeah that works too, but I was just trying to use concatenation. Thanks a lot for your help.