Echo statement in PHP - Mini Project: Build & Apply

Echo statement

📖 Scenario: You are creating a simple PHP script to display a greeting message on a web page.

🎯 Goal: Build a PHP script that uses the echo statement to show a greeting message.

📋 What You'll Learn

Create a variable with a greeting message

Use the echo statement to display the message

💡 Why This Matters

🌍 Real World

Displaying messages on web pages is a basic task in web development.

💼 Career

Understanding how to output text with PHP is essential for backend web programming.

1

Create a greeting message variable

Create a variable called $greeting and set it to the string "Hello, welcome to PHP!".

PHP

<?php
$greeting = "Hello, welcome to PHP!";  # Your code here

Need a hint?

Use the = sign to assign the string to the variable $greeting.

2

Add a helper variable for punctuation

Create a variable called $punctuation and set it to the string "!".

PHP

<?php
$greeting = "Hello, welcome to PHP!";
$punctuation = "!";  # Your code here

Need a hint?

Remember to use double quotes for the string "!".

3

Combine variables in an echo statement

Use the echo statement to display the $greeting variable followed by the $punctuation variable.

PHP

<?php
$greeting = "Hello, welcome to PHP!";
$punctuation = "!";
echo $greeting . $punctuation;  # Your code here

Need a hint?

Use the dot . operator to join the two variables in the echo statement.

4

Display the final greeting message

Write a line to print the combined greeting message using echo so the output is exactly Hello, welcome to PHP!!.

PHP

<?php
$greeting = "Hello, welcome to PHP!";
$punctuation = "!";
echo $greeting . $punctuation . $punctuation;  # Your code here

Need a hint?

Check that the output matches the exact text including punctuation.