String Addition

[Aim]

I need to be able to add a string to another string, but the way i'm trying to do it dosnt work:

<?
$addition = "";
$array = array("P", "H", "P");
foreach($array as $item) {
  $addition = $addidion + $item;
}
echo $addition;
?>

I thought it would echo 'PHP' but insted it echos '0'.
Why?

Thanks, examancer.

[examancer]

use this:

<?
$addition = "";
$array = array("P", "H", "P");
foreach($array as $item) {
  $addition = $addidion . $item;
}
echo $addition;
?>

[examancer]

Or there are some other ways:

<?
$addition = "";
$array = array("P", "H", "P");
foreach($array as $item) {
  $addition .= $item; // concantenates $item onto $addition
}
echo $addition;
?>

or this:

<?
$array = array("P", "H", "P");
$addition = implode("", $array); // implodes all the values in the $array to the string, joining them by the specified character, which in this case is nothing
?>

[Sayian]

The most help you could offer this man, would be to tell him to go read the manual's pages on strings.

You dont add two strings togeather with the plus sign.

You add strings togeather with a . between the two strings (properly ending them of course).

Or, as stated above you could use $var.= $var;

RTM http://www.php.net/strings