concatenation help please

[gilk9]

I need to construct a new file name from the words "Lesson" and ".zip" and a variable $lessonnumber.

The three elements are in the order  Lesson $lessonnumber  .zip

The final format of the new variable $newfile would be Lesson123.zip

I have been experimenting with variations of

$lesson = 'Lesson ';

$zip = '.zip';

$newfile = $lesson.$nextlessonnum.$zip;

 

Trying to concatenate numbers and strings has got me beat! All help appreciated,thanks

[oni-kun]

What are you trying to do?

$nextlessonnum = 123;
$lesson = 'Lesson';
$zip = '.zip';
$newfile = $lesson.$nextlessonnum.$zip;
echo $newfile; //Output: Lesson123.zip

 

That works fine. Concatinating strings and numbers are the same.

http://php.net/manual/en/language.types.type-juggling.php

[gilk9]

Thanks for that,

I was wanting confirmation that my general coding direction was appropriate.

It was.

When I commented out lines one by one I found my error.

Just had a stray character causing the problem.

Thanks again,

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